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The content of Article 27 of the Spanish Constitution reflects the plurality of competing ideologies that were proffered in the debates that ensued prior to its formulation. But beyond these political factors, its inclusion in the Constitution is inspired by a common interest to uphold the different goods and rights related to education. The State has the duty to provide for the education of its citizens. This, however, must be compatible with guaranteeing basic educational freedoms such as the right of parents to choose the kind of education they

This article reviews the concern of a university focalised on the social factor, its influx and projection in real contexts, from an historical perspective. In order to get this aspiration, it offers an historical revision of different authors, initiatives and movements that propose and stimulate these considerations in Spain from the middle of XIX century to the seventies of XX century. The text presents historical manners of understanding the way in which the university students and their teachers, have to accomplish their social respon-sibility.

The efficiency of the type of school attended to can be measured through its influence on the adults way of thinking. The type of educational institution attended to till the age of 16 does not seem to have had any influence on a variety of the adults cultural aspects (ideological and psychological), at least we have not been able to find out this influence. The survey on the quality of life at work, conducted by the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Security in 1999 has been used as a database.   Key words: Public education, private education,

Freedom is not a disposition available when we are born but a possibility that depends on our work on ourself and the virtues. The article, explores the internal structure that allows the election in the human beeing. From this anthropological analisis extract some pedagogical guidelines that justify the necessary intervention of the education as well as well as the limits and objects of that intervention that are essential to become a free human being.   Key words: Freedom, anthropology of education, critical pedagogy, behaviorism, character

This documents sums up the main conclusions of the study " The Movement of Educating Cities: an Evaluative Investigation which was carried out the objective to describe the situation of the educative cities in Spain by carrying out an evaluation of the activities of the city councils, their involvement in the Movement of Educating Cities and the experience obtained by the city councils. The article specifies the steps followed throughout the investigation: objectives, methodology, samples, tools, the interview guide, the reliability of the interview

This article analyzes the didactic approach of the Middle Age (XI-XIII Centuries) teaching and learning process. At this time the rational, secular and humanistic aspects of the culture were born. This new emphasis on these elements made possible an important didactic development focused in three important axes: the selection of the information and the problem of objectivity, the forms of how to store and to retain the information, and the effectivity in the transmission and acquisition of knowledge.   Key words: Information, selection of the

In the article we carry out an analysis of the older people's educational needs and of the task that museums can do in this aspect for this section of the population. Although we do not limit ourselves to describe the programmes and activities than museums can offer to older people, but also we describe the contributions than olders can do to the museums. We also check exhaustively the last trends in this particular field of Museum Education.   Key words: Older people, Museum, Museum Education, Current Trends.

This study tries to outline the mathematical abilities of mentally retarded children and at the same time to offer didactics lines in order to faciltate the development of mathematical thinking. 579 normal children and 315 mentally retarded children were given the test TEMA-2 (Test of early mathematics ability; Ginsburg & Baroody, 1990). The results show that the mentally retarded children were delayed in the acquisition of counting ability and conventionalism. They were handicapped in concepts of magnitude relative, number facts, mental and