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This paper introduces a longitudinal investigation about the aspects of the Innovative Educational Projects in Andalusia, in the Environmental Education field. The analyzed period goes from the mid-eighties till the present time. The aim is to study the process of school construction of cross-curricular topics, with a special interest to the teacher decisions. The facts show that, on the way from the written project till its practical development, there are a number of restrictions and adaptations which end up isolating the innovative experiments

This article describes the elaboration process, application and evaluation of an AIDS Prevention Programme applied to ESO students through Health Education. Apart from the transmission of information influences the formation and changing of attitudes and the development of the ability successfully confront situations where the risk of HIV infection exist. Techniques for formation of and change of attitudes, clarification of values and decision taking were used. The obtained results show an increment in the attitudes of tolerance and solidarity with

Transversal and retrospective study of diverse variables of educational character with a sample of 184 drug addicts in different contexts: hospital, prison, commune, unbound. They lead a more or less normal life. Bases for the elaboration of preventive programmes are analysed.

The quality of education is nowadays a basic target in educational policies. But any attempt to transform or to improve educational practices should rely on teachers as basic and major agents within the processes of educational reforms. That is why we have thought itâ??s necessary to ask for the collaboration of the teachers and governing boards in order to be able to identify and to analyse some aspects and problems which have been detected in the implementation and introduction of the educational reform. In our study about rural schools we have

This research paper is an analysis of the factors influencing the damage theories in school headship. Its major aim is, basically, to confirm the so-called <School headship damage theories>. To this end, we examine the experiences and points of view of several people who currently hold, or have at some time held, posts involving the kind of responsibilities proper to School Heads.

The present society demands a new type of education if we want to create citizens fully conscious of their rights and duties. In a democratic society the creation of a good citizen involves preparing him or her to take part in the development of the community as well as enhancing the participating structures in which he or she can get involved. Education requires significant changes in focusing the methodological approaches and the achievement of major efforts aimed at the integration of global values in the process of teaching-learning. In the

The republicans at the end of the 19th century, with their <critical consciousness> and <institutionist> way of life (related to the Free Institution of Teaching), in some cases verge on scientific positivism, maintained, after the national disaster of 1898, that one of the main ways of regeneration for Spanish people, was educational reform. The Europeanization of the school, social equality by means of an adequate national education, autonomy of the universities, the whole training of students, <popular> education... were common