Pilar Benejam Arguimbau | |
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Born | Pilar Benejam i Arguimbau 1937 (age 85–86) Ciutadella de Menorca, Spain |
Occupation(s) | Geographer, university professor, pedagogue, writer |
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Academic background | |
Education | Doctor |
Alma mater | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
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Institutions | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
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).
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.
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