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In the last decades, educational research has clearly shown, from both a theoretical and an experimental pers-pective, that looking after diversity, and consequently personalizing education, are signs of quality and effectiveness in modem educational systems. However, when that diversity refers to giftedness, opinions arise which are often based on prejudices and myths, and many do not see a need for paying special attention to the group of diverse individuals included in the term gifted. In this paper, we first review the evolution of the concept

The subject of values and their place in the development of a person makes up the two fundamental elements of any educa-tional system of quality. This article, setting out from a concept of person, whose analysis permit us to check a group of values which arise from each of their dimensions, and whose development takes us towards the objective of a complete education. The values which arise from the same nature of human beings are the following: as we are animals gifted with reason and affection, there are corporal, intellectual and emotional values;

This study had two aims: first, evaluate a peculiar special population in the false belief task; and second, compare the results with other special populations (autistic and Downs Syndrome population).  The task involved their ability to correctly understand memory / reality situations and also the ability to infer mental states of others. The findings support a mentalazing deficit for the experimental population. The results suggest that theory of mind deficit is not a singular deficit for autistic people.   Key words: Mental state, Inference,

We elaborated and applied a training programme to prevent and treat the students absenteeism in the school children in Primary Level in a middle-sized city in Spain. We succeeded in increasing the presence of the students with absences in the school and also in improving their self-esteem. This programme was conducted by the investigators and was developed by a well-coordinated team: the headship, the teachers, the pedagogue, the social worker and so on.   Key words: Students absenteeism, Training programmes, Self-esteem.

Short-term strategies for conceptual change, based in the generation of a cognitive conflict, have proved unsuccessful in many cases. So called alternative conceptions extended and mixed in diverse fields beyond the sciences, tend to be organized in more or less diffuse lay mini-theories, have components at different levels of specificity and consciousness, and may be based in strong framework theories. Lay theories differ from scientific ones not only in their content, but also in the nature of their conceptualizations, in their methodology and

The purpose of this article is to determine how television, more specifically, violence on television, affects on children's behavior. Television plays a significant role in the lives and socialization of children. As a matter of fact, children spend as much time watching television as they do listening to their teachers in school. This research article examines the relationship between violent television viewing and children's aggressiveness. It also presents how children learn some violent behaviors from the content of television and imitate some

Education for diversity has to be based necessarily on a wide conception of the curriculum, that offers opportunities to all the students in order to place them within the regular education school. Curriculum could be organized not only centered in subjects, but also it must excel the limits of the such as work projects. This article shows an experience of teaching through several projects of work developed in school-family-community interaction. Work develop under the model of co-operative learning with the supervision and support of the teacher