Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

las formas sociales del tiempo

English translation:

Units of time

Added to glossary by peter jackson
Nov 28, 2020 07:10
3 yrs ago
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Spanish term

las formas sociales del tiempo

Spanish to English Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy
I am translating a long series of active learning activities for pre-school children. When the games focus on concepts such as days, months, the calendar, etc. the content is described as "formas sociales del tiempo: los días de la semana", for example". This appears in the official curriculum for "educación infantil" under Spanish law. I can think, however, of no corresponding expression in English. Things like "periods of time" or "time expressions" do not really fit. I am thinking of putting something like "Understanding time: days of the week". I wonder if anyone else can think of anything better.

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Units of time

Here is a link helping teachers to out across (conventional) notions of the divisions of time.
https://numberock.com/lessons/units-of-time/
Peer comment(s):

agree neilmac : Succinct...
6 hrs
Seems to be the term teaching staff use
agree Domini Lucas : also https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/units-of-time/...
15 hrs
Yes, no point making it sound like rocket science here!
agree Yvonne Gallagher : all that's needed here. Plain and simple
2 days 33 mins
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14 mins

social constructs of time

Here's another example clarifying what it means:

Las formas sociales del tiempo: los días de la semana, las estaciones y algunos hechos relevantes como las fiestas y tradiciones
http://micuadernodesociales2014.blogspot.com/2014/04/sesion-...

There are lots of other possible translations: "basic concepts of time", "time in everyday life", "the meaning of time", "introduction to time"...
Peer comment(s):

agree Bruno Dutra
2 hrs
agree Cláudia Pinheiro Pereira
5 hrs
agree Francois Boye
8 hrs
neutral ormiston : Sounds a wee bit daunting as a concept, though strictly correct
12 hrs
You wouldn't say "Right, children, we're going to study social concepts of time". This is educational terminology for teachers and parents, so "daunting" doesn't come into it.
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53 mins

calendar vocabulary

Lexical sets are interesting when we group words together according to their connections. I suggest either one or two vocabulary sets for the calendar (months of the year and days of the week) and another separate one for telling the time. Dates to qualify the days of the week should probably follow with numerical sets.
Example sentence:

Conjuntos léxicos son interesates cuando agrupamos palabras según sus conexiones. Sugiero uno u dos conjuntos léxicos para los meses del año y los días de la semana, y otro conjunto aparte para enseñar las horas del reloj.

Las fechas que van con los días de la semana siguen probablemente con conjuntos numéricos.

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