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The main issue we have analyzed in this paper is about the actual content of Didactics and its relationship with the concept of Curriculum, more related to the Anglo-Saxon tradition. We have shown how important both Didactics and Curriculum are in the teaching and learning process. First we have presented the Nordic approach with the participation of several English and American authors. Later on we have analyzed more than 25 studies of General Didactics published in Spanish from 1985 to 1998. This section is focused on the descriptors of Didactics,

The author studies the movement of the active school in Spain. He analyzes its importance in all the educational reforms of the 20th century. The active strategies are a topic of great significance in the Spanish educational reforms from 1920. These active strategies are still pursued with great interest. The conclusion is easy. The educational reforms have not been successful. They have not achieved their explicit aims.   Key Words: Active teaching, active strategies, educational reforms in Spain.

This article stresses the need of moving teaching strategies from curricular contents to one more learning-based approach. One of the main challenges teachers have to assume in the current conditions of schooling is just to become supporters of the student's processes of learning. Starting from the meaning of the learning-based teaching as a general referent for didactics, nine factors influencing the learning processes are analysed: personal abilities, practice, task perception of learners, expectations, attribution, attention, context conditions,

This article is about how to achieve knowledge using didactic strategies. It is organized in two main issues of content. First preliminary views, where we can distinguish several types of knowledge and its acquisition process. In this part we have also added a brief conceptualization about didactic strategies. Later on, some didactic strategies to acquire knowledge are presented. They are organized taking in account who mainly plays the action (teacher, student and group).   Key words: Typology of knowledge, didactic strategies, magisterial

Educating in values is always essential, but finding the strategies that are needed to acquire this education is nowadays fundamental. Humans with education should grow as a person: the more knowledge they acquire to become more person, the more educational values will be achieved. However, in the opposite way, all the knowledge that does not help them to grow as a person would become a contravalue. It is important to acquire right habits and values. Growing can be only conceived as a capacity of constant adaptation to the changing world that we

Emotional education is an outstanding place of the actual culture and social needs. Technology, emotion and change are three conceptual keys of our society of information. These are the theoretical referents of this report. From here emphasize emotional view as value to educate. The main goal of the paper is the research done in the outstanding of the emotional dimension (feeling), next to the perception, think, applied, persistence and social understanding as inclination of basic needs for both the students and adults interior life. We delimitate

A general review on didactic strategies that help to the development of procedures comprised in the didactic dimension called 'how to do 'is herein discussed. The different phases included in this dimension, from a simple application to the metacognition, are analyzed as well. Additionally, several data are furnished to the terminological confusion that embraces this dimension and that has grouped or widely separated the most significant authors nowadays. Concepts, such as capacity, cleverness, handiness, strategy or methodology are often intermingled