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In this paper we have attempted to offer an analysis of the school learning from a cognitive and motivational perspective. The constructivists approaches of the learning consider necessary to integrate both aspects to arrive at an adequate understanding of the learning process. The investigations on the self-regulated learning attempt to know the relationships among cognition, motivation and metacognition, considering that students aren't passive recipients of information, but that they construct their own knowledge and their own cognitive and motivational

We elaborated and applied a pedagogical programme to teach learning strategies to students in adult continuing education in Valencia along an academic year. We succeeded in improving significantly the learning strategies of these students. We also succeeded in improving significantly the marks of them in two important subjects, Spanish and Maths. So we obtained generalization and transference of results. We think that these results are important and that they prove the efficiency of the methods of the educational intervention which we used. This

The educational systems of avanced societies are a good example of highly complex systems. Their size, the multiplicity of components, the richness of interactions and the role of the socioeconomical environment are basic factors that explain their complexity. This article vindicates the complexity paradigm as an adequate epistemological frame for scientific analysis and policy-making in education.

The <People's Theatre> which is characterized by its non profes-sional and distant economical approach to theatre, and by its manner of carrying the intelligence of the elite to the towns people plays the main part in this work. After discussing the educational function of the thea-tre, with special reference to the Spanish Second Republic, two types of theatre are studied: Pedagogical Missions Theatre and the University Theatre of <La Barraca> and <El Búho>, members of the University Schooling Federation (F.U.E.) of Madrid and

Both the European integration and the demands of the cultural minorities within each state led us to live in multicultural societies. The paper analyses the different consequences upon educational model of considering multiculturalism as an inescapable fact or as something intrinsically good. The consideration of multiculturalism as a fact leads to establish a sharp distinction between the public and the private spheres of human life and to reduce education to the public realm. Against this view, the article argues in favour of considering multiculturalism

The present paper is the result of an investigation on cooperative learning towards moral development among students of 3rd B.U.P. (16 year olds, final course of secondary schooling in Spain). The need to overcome a too restrictive moral education, often limited to the technique of moral dilemma is justified. Techniques used in the applied pedagogical programme are described (jigsaw and investigation group), as well as their rationale. The results obtained indicate a considerable increase in moral development for the experimental group. The main

Nowadays, it is more and more frequent to find research on metacognitive strategies. In this article we present an experimental study about the student significative gains on some pedagogical and cognitive variables after implementing, the Repetto's Metacognitive Reading comprehension program (OMECOL). After reviewing some of the main theoretical foundations, we centre our attention on the description of strategies for promoting reading comprehension and on the MANCOVA student gains on several learning products and cognitive variables.