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In this article the results of the investigation carried out into procedures in the Basic Curricular Design are presented.Starting from the attitude contents of the Basic Curricular Design, those which are rules or which refer to the learning of these, are selected and are classified into categories, subcategories, educational stages and areas of knowledge. Finally an analysis and a critical evaluation of the distribution of procedures in the school curriculum are made, extracting certain pedagogical implications.

This study deals with the logic of the decissions in the genesis and the development of educational policies, having a significant referential axis in our context: the beginning and progressive articulation of the Galician University System. We analyze the technical, ethical, and political decissions, as well as the pertinent decissional scopes. In coherence with our prerequisites of thinking, we pay special attention to the planning and drawing of the studied case. We conclude affirming that it is in the planning context where the decissional logic

The model of educational social change worked out in this paper consists of three stages and follows the characteristic guidelines of any process of spreading. This change is driven by the interest in obtaining higher income and prestige in exchange to a higher rate of schooling. At present, and according to such a model, Spain is between the second and third stages and will reach the third as soon as the arrithmetic means of income and prestige of the different educational levels are the same.

The aim of the present article is to present, analyze and reflect upon empirical data on the evaluation of the attitudes of students of the University of Salamanca concerning three fundamental concepts: University, students and teachers, using Osgood's semantic Differential technique. Once diverse techniques were applied for obtaining and specifying the different adjectives to evaluate the three concepts mentioned above, we selected the ten dualities that best discriminate according to a previous sample. The results indicate that, according to the

The author conceives human person as a being of traditions which education must transmit and maintain: otherwise man would be a rootless being. An unexpected change produces, concerning social and cultural life, insecurity and risk. Nowadays culture is rich and mixed and young's education in values requires cultural heritage and, concerning educators, the courage of educating rightly, promoting civic virtues and love towards family.

The present study analyses different theroretical conceptualizations of gifted students and their projection on the pedagogical diagnosis, focusing on the specific problems of diagnosis and on the two more widely used instruments: psychometric tests and experts judgement. The second part of this article offers the results of a research on gifted preschool and primary students. These outcomes reveal not only the superiority of this group of students in intelligence, but also in their short and long term achievement, self-concept scores and in the

This paper deals with subjects that are of essential concern to European and Spanish industries, and in doing so, it does not overlook social solidarity. In these stormy, crisis ridden times, recipes that applied to our more peaceful times are no longer of any practical use. This all calls for a change in the relationship between the individual and the organization. A new moral contract emerges, where the employee will not necessarily find that his loyal dedication is always rewarded by his being given a full time job for life. It will rather lead

A free society should reconcile market and solidarity. This is getting difficult to achieve in a global economy, by the means of Welfare State. But this could be achieved by liberal means, if we had a more adequate concept of capital, including moral capital (with within it solidarity and peace), and a more adequate concept of responsibility (including the duty of reproducing the capital adequately conceived). The practical mean of reaching this goal is the working together of free enterprises and free associations, so that social and moral efficiency