Ángel Hernando (born in

Huelva Huelva ( , , ) is a municipality of Spain and the capital of the Huelva (province), province of Huelva, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. Located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits betwee ...

, 1959), is a professor at the University of Huelva.

Biography

He is a professor at the University of Huelva, specialist in

evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regard to the ancestral problems they evolved ...

and

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

, and media education. He is the associate editor of Comunicar Journal, which was ranked in 2015 in the eleventh position in the world and first in Spanish of CiteScore in the category of cultural studies with a score of 1.93. In the Integrated Classification of Scientific Journals it is positioned in the highest category, the A + Excellence, in which those located in the first quartile of the categories of the

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are positioned. He is also a member of scientific councils of other journals such as Apuntes de Psicología. He is a researcher at the Agora research group at the University of Huelva, a member of Comunicar Group and the Red Interuniversitaria Euroamericana de Investigación sobre Competencias Mediáticas para la Ciudadanía (ALFAMED). He has also participated in several research projects for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Interreg III, E-learning, Lengthening and INTI of the

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Teaching practice

He has practiced professionally the three levels of the educational system, being member of the teaching staff in

primary education Primary education is the first stage of Education, formal education, coming after preschool/kindergarten and before secondary education. Primary education takes place in ''primary schools'', ''elementary schools'', or first schools and middle s ...

(1981–1996),

secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...

and

university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

. He has a PhD in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

, a degree in psychology and psychopedagogy and a diploma in teaching. The first professional practice at the university took place in 2003 as associate professor; between 1996 and 2008 he served as a professor of the specialty of educational guidance in secondary education, and from 2008 to 2012 as an official in the Services Commission, until the ownership of the university in 2012. He teaches at the degrees of psychology and social education and in the next masters: - communication and audiovisual education, gender studies, identities and citizenship, general health psychology, secondary education, and belongs to the doctorate programs: communication, interdisciplinary gender studies, social and educational sciences and health sciences, where he has directed numerous doctoral and master's theses.

Publications

His works are mainly focused on

and education as well as educommunication, highlighting the publication of a large number of articles, books and book chapters.

References

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