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In this paper, the author states that education could be better defined as reception and responsibility and that this ethic relation between educator and pupil is the root or essential element of education. The author proposes a new paradigm, the pedagogy of alterity, with inspiration in Levinas, as a different model for educational praxis and research. Education as reception and responsibility facilitates the learning of values and the moral environment in the classroom, and it is a fundamental support for the students in the actual moment of crisis

In this article, we claim that the arrival of the Information Society -with its subsequent innovations and changes- generates a different platform for professional action. There is a qualitative break, which differentiates between good education outside the Information Society and quality education derived from the Information Society, where the New Information and Communication Technologies become key pedagogical tools for teachers. Bearing the above in mind, education professionals have to face the glocal challenge. They must deal with local issues,

The present investigation approached the problem of the concept of angle and the techniques needed to represent how pupils construct that concept in their cognitive structure during their years in school. We used the Pathfinder Associative Networks. This technique provided us with the data of the 458 networks of the participating students, using eleven concepts related to the general concept of angle. Results showed how the pupil's cognitive structure evolutioned during instruction and what the most relevant concepts for them were. On the basis

A simple random sample of 244 Kindergarten and Primary Education teachers of Málaga public schools was studied. These teachers showed low scores in the Emotional Exhaustion (EE), the Depersonalisation (DP) and the Personal Accomplishment (PA) subscales. Significant relationships were found between the professional voice use and burnout: EE scores were associated to the vocal use inside the classroom as well as to the cervical muscular tension; DP punctuation related to vocal use during the professional meetings and free time activities; PA subscale

The aim of this paper is to analyse how textbooks deal with activities which ask students of primary school for working in groups. The sample comprised 24 Social Science, Natural Science and Technology books written for primary school children (6-12 years old). After coding the information it follows a twofold methodological process, in order to offer a qualitative description of groupwork´ activities, as well as a quantitative assessment of the frequency with which they appear and their continuity in primary education. The results indicate that

This investigation has for purpose to know if the pupils of the Secondary Obligatory Education have perceived the changes got in the evaluation for the LOGSE. We intended to know their opinions over of the procedures with which there have been evaluated, the subjects, the attribution of their successes and failures, the tutorships, the introduced innovations and the degree of satisfaction for having dealed this educational level. To this end, we elaborate a Questionnaire of 16 open questions that we apply to a sample of 359 pupils, corresponding

This article's main objective is reviewing the social competence concept because of the last researches' more complex and multidimensional perspec-tive.The social competence theme is going up due to the importance for present and future social functioning, life quality and people's coexistence. This interest had its reflection in the number of theoretical and practical studies, even though, the different authors did not reach to any certain definition. This lack of definition brings the appearance of different perspectives and programs studying