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Education in Europe is an intercultural task which has to take into account the similarities and differences between the European nations and cultures, which are characterised by deep diversity. In this situation it is especially necessary to take into consideration the cultural differences in education. The experience of differences and commonalities produces to intercultural awareness and competence. The other is like a mirror in which the unknown and hidden elements of our culture and of ourselves are discovered. In a mimetic process the other

The presence of several approaches to social and educational research, precisely those called quantitative & qualitative, has a long history; sometimes it becames a so strong confrontation, that in the decade of 1980 it deserved to be labelled paradigm wars. The main thesis of this article is that the philosophical ground of the most radical positions in these arguments is very weak, with some basic confusions in ontological, epistemological and axiological matters, besides the strictly methodological ones. This work aims to clarify those issues,

The present Spanish Educational Law (L.O.G.S.E.) takes in account the attitudes between the curricular contents that have to be taught at school. Nevertheless, neither the promotion of attitudes nor its evaluation are an easy task to be developed by educators. This is, in a major part, due because the term attitude lacks of the needed conceptual clarity. In our opinion, the attitudinal dispositions have a correspondence with determined affective states that predispose individuals to act in the sense those states prescribe. In this way, the education

This article is a consequence of an empirical research about the association between psychological and social variables and adherence to treatment in HIV infected patients. We present here theoretical conclusions infered from the empirical data and the literature about this topic. The discussion is about four subjects: what counseling means in clinical practice, the necessary conditions for behavior change, the improvement of the physician-patient relationship, and the interaction between mind and body. In the last years, many articles in scientific

This article analyzes the mechanisms that develop the burnout syndrome of the teacher. This syndrome generates a internal anxiety constant which stems from every day problems within the job and the lack of recourses to avoid them. Strategies, preventive as well as therapeutic are suggested. These ask the professionals; politicians and the academics responsible for teacher training to give thought to the problem.     Key words: Teacher’s motivation, Burnout syndrome, Teaching psychopedaógogic strategies, Internal anxiety.

The development of vocational training is one of the most important aims to European Union. This aim is included in European Social Policy. But, What is the meaning of vocational training? Really, it is an improvement of knowledge, skills and attitudes to develop our work very good and to live better. The European Treaties (Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice), the European social actions and the employment orientations want to find different kind of training to different kind of people. European training programmes are the solution. We have analysed initial

In this paper we analysed the inferencial activity that characterises the deep comprehension of expository texts. We have based on three criteria: the degree of explicitness in the text of the information obtained; the degree of complexity of the cognitive operations involved; and the role that such operations perform in the strategic process of comprehension. In this framework, we argue the possibility of distinguishing between two short elaborative inferences: situational and deep. Finally, we provide some approaches to educational intervention

A comparative study between good readers and poor readers The present study tries to establish the performance of a sample of 80 readers from Primary education (half of them good readers and the other half poor readers) in a series of 27 metalinguistic variables. The aim of this study is to go into the metalinguistic variables, which discriminate reading achievement, the factorial solution they offer, the degree of competence in those metalinguistic variables, and the degree or presence-absence of such abilities in untrained pupils.