Esther Argelagós Castaño

Associate Lecturer in Educational Psychology, Universitat de Girona (since 2012) and Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (from 2018).

Doctor in Psychopedagogy by the Universitat de Lleida (2012).

Bachelor in Special Education (1998) and Bachelor of Arts in Psychopedagogy (2007) by the Universitat de Lleida. Master in Educational Psychology (2009) by the Universitat de Barcelona.

esther.argelagos@udg.edu
esther.argelagos@unir.net
Biography

She worked as a teacher in Primary and Secondary Education in Aragon, Spain (1999-2001). She also has worked as a university teacher at the Faculdade de Educação e Comunicação at Universidade Católica de Moçambique  (UCM) during 5 academic years (2001-2006), teaching subjects related with educational psychology, communication and higher academic competences. During this stage, she coordinated the implementation and development of Problem Based Learning (PBL) method at the Department of Education at UCM, with the partnership of the Maastricht Universiteit (the Netherlands).

She has been working as research assistant at the COnTIC group (2008-2011). Among her research activities, it can be highlighted her pre-doctoral stage at Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (now, Welten Institute) of the Open Universiteit Nederland (2010).

She carried out the defence of her doctoral thesis with European mention: Information-problem solving in Secondary Education: analyses of cognitive processes using Web information and their improvement through embedded instruction, supervised by Manoli Pifarré, and to which the Universitat de Lleida awarded the doctoral extraordinary price.

Her lines of research are mainly the analysis and instruction in solving problems with the use of Internet information and the development of informational competencies in Primary, Secondary and Higher Education. She also takes part of the research group Competencias Académicas Universitarias CAUNIR.

"In today's bustle society, the really important thing is how information becomes valuable knowledge. However, knowledge itself means little if it cannot generate wisdom, so that oneself may realise the main things in life."