Pilar Benejam Arguimbau Explained
Pilar Benejam i Arguimbau (born 1937) is a Spanish geographer and pedagogue. In 1961 she graduated in teaching from the School of the Balearic Islands. In 1966 she obtained a licentiate in pedagogy, and another in history from the University of Barcelona in 1972. Finally, in 1985, she received a doctorate in pedagogy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
Biography
Pilar Benejam Arguimbau was born in 1937. She has a distant kinship with Professor Joan Benejam i Vives (1846–1922).[1]
Since 1972, she has been a professor in the Department of Language Teaching, Literature, and Social Sciences at the UAB.[2]
She has worked at the Costa y Llobera School, and at the Talitha School.
She has been part of several commissions for the reform of teacher training in Catalonia and the rest of Spain. She is an expert in issues of review of school programming in social sciences, and has advised public administrations in reference to the overall training cycle. Since 1994, she has been director of the UAB's Institute of Education Sciences.
She has been interested in all aspects of pedagogical renovation and didactic innovation, and in the introduction of the teaching of the different epistemological proposals of geography.
Works
- Intercanvi. Geografia humana i econòmica del món actual (1976)
- La formación de maestros. Una propuesta alternativa (1986)
- Geografía e historia: educación secundaria, Editor Vicens-Vives, Editorial SA, 224 pages, (1995)
- El proyecto curricular en el contexto del proyecto educativo institucional (1999)
- Una geografía humana renovada: lugares y regiones en un mundo global (2000)
- El mestre Joan Benejam i Vives, City Council of Ciudadela and Council of Education and Culture of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Mahón, Impresos Domingo, 31 pages (2001)
- Las ciencias sociales: concepciones y procedimientos (2002)
- Didáctica y construcción del conocimiento social en la escuela, Pensamiento Educativo 30: 61-74 (2002)[3]
- Agora 3, Ediciones Vicens Vives, 344 pages, (2010)
- Demos 3, Vol. 3: secondary education, Ediciones Vicens Vives, 344 pages, (2010)
- Nou Cives 3, Ediciones Vicens Vives, 352 pages, (2011)
- Nuevo Demos, 3 ESO (Madrid), with Albet i Mas, Montserrat Casas Vilalta, Pilar Comes Sole, Montserrat Oller Freixa, Ediciones Vicens Vives, 352 pages, (2011)
- Nuevo Demos 3 Canarias Trimestralizado, with A. Albet i Mas, Montserrat Casas Vilalta, Pilar Comes Sole, Montserrat Oller Freixa, Ediciones Vicens Vives, 360 pages,
- Geography And History 1.1-1.2+cd's, with Margarita Garcia Sebastian, Abel Albet Mas, Cristina Gatell Arimont, Ediciones Vicens Vives, 288 pages, (2011)
- Lurra Berria 1 Euskadi, Ediciones Vicens Vives, 296 pages, (2011)
- "Excursions i activitats a Primària i Secundària", Perspectiva escolar 362: 72-75 (2012)
- "Enric Lluch i Martín, la geografía, l'educació i el compromís cívic", Perspectiva escolar 367: 70-73 (2013)
Honors
- Member of the editorial team of the Journals of the University of Murcia[4]
- Member of, where she had a very active participation in the constituent stage of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and was editor of the Bellaterra Manifesto, for which she received that institution's Bronze Medal[5]
- Sponsor of the Doctor Honoris Causa of the pedagogue Marta Mata (1926–2006)[6]
Awards
- 2003: Ramon Llull Award[7]
- 2004: Creu de Sant Jordi, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya[8]
- 2004: Jaume Vicens Vives Award[8]
- 2004: Emili Darder Prize, awarded for a life dedicated to teacher training[9]
- 2011: Catalonia Education Award[9]
- 2015: Gold Medal of Ciutadella[10]
Notes and References
- Materiales para el aula, historia y memorias: a propósito de una carpeta didáctica sobre Juan Benejam Vives . Materials for the Classroom, History, and Memories: For the Purpose of a Didactic File on Juan Benejam Vives . Alberto Luis . Gómez . Biblio 3W . . 1138-9796 . VI . 331 . Spanish . 30 November 2001 .
- News: Falso dilema en la formación del profesorado de secundaria . False Dilemma in the Training of Secondary School Teachers . Pilar . Benejam Arguimbau . . Spanish . 30 April 2007 . 2 July 2018.
- Didáctica y construcción del conocimiento social en la escuela . Didactics and Construction of Social Knowledge in School . Pilar . Benejam Arguimbau . Pensamiento Educativo . 30 . 61–74 . Spanish . July 2002 . 3 July 2018.
- Web site: Equipo editorial . Editorial Team . . Spanish . 2 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120629030235/http://revistas.um.es/educatio/about/editorialTeamBio/10581 . 29 June 2012 . dead .
- Web site: Pilar Benejam i Arguimbau . . Spanish . 10 November 2011 . 2 July 2018.
- Web site: Marta Mata i Garriga . . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20080215184207/http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite?cid=1096479720890&pagename=UAB%2FPage%2FTemplatePageLevel2StandardMenu&c=Page¶m1=1096479160777 . 15 February 2008 . dead . 2 July 2018.
- News: Antich entrega los Premis Ramon Llull y las Medalles d'Or de Balears . Antich Bestows the Ramon Llull Awards and the Balearic Gold Medals . Periódico de Ibiza . Spanish . 28 February 2003 . 2 July 2018.
- Web site: Book Review – Benejam i Arguimbau, Pilar (2014). Quina educació volem? . Xavier . Fontich . Documents d'anàlisi geogràfica . . 63 . 3 . 665 . Catalan . September 2017 . 2 July 2018 . ResearchGate.
- Web site: Pilar Benejam, membre del jurat del Premi Edu21, obté el Premi Catalunya d'Educació 2011 . Pilar Benejam, Member of the Jury of the Edu21 Award, Gets the 2011 Catalonia Education Award . Es Diari . Catalan . 16 December 2011 . 2 July 2018 . Edu21.
- News: Ciutadella propone la Medalla de Oro para la pedagoga Pilar Benejam . Ciutadella Proposes the Gold Medal for Pedagogue Pilar Benejam . Es Diari . 8 . Spanish . 17 November 2015 . 2 July 2018 . Institut Menorquí d'Estudis.
