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This article deals with the following issue: When reliability indices of teaching evaluation at university level are broken down into students personal components and contextual components, reduction of reliability is expected. Results suggest that it is necessary to consider a methodological alternative to reliability calculated with traditional methods, and to interpret cautiously results obtained from questionnaires, especially if they are going to be used for summative assesment by members of the academic authorities.   Key words: Hierarchical

This paper presents a two-year collaborative process of «reflection-onaction». Its goal was to enhance professional development of an university Physics teacher at a Patagonian university, who had to lecture in a course of studies where Physics played no key role. The students were not interested in it and they did not have the background knowledge that the teacher considered necessary to understand the course. This made his teaching models fail, and his insecurities and dilemmas arose. His thinking was characterized as regards Physics and its

In order to behave as a citizen, it is necessary to pass through a learning process, personal and embedded in a community. The aim of this learning process is to prepare autonomous individuals, willing to take part in the development of common projects that improve their own group and, at the same time, they should not forget the necessary relationship with others in order to attain a better, more human world. In this process, schools have an important role to play, many times forgotten, which is essential to underline once more.   Key Words:

The education of the ethical conscience, the teaching-learning in attitudes and values, emerges as basic mainstays on which we can base the educational proposals that tend to promote the attitude of solidarity among pupils. In this article, the education in attitudes and values, the solidarity as an attitude, and the cooperative learning, turns into the basic issues from which we want to base an educational experience of teaching- learning in the attitude of solidarity. Aronson Jigsaw Technique has been the educational strategy chosen to design

Though any attempt to describe the teaching profession in culturally homogeneous terms may become problematic, individualism appears as a reiterative trait in descriptions both theoretical and empirical works make of teachers. In times when educational reforms and planned change proposals seem to be nurtures by the mythical discourse arguing for the need to transform schools in collaborative cultures or professional communities for teacher learning, it might be useful to redirect our analysis towards this ubiquitous norm. This paper aims to contribute

This article presents some conclusions from a research developed in the Principality of Asturias aimed at analyzing the formation of gender identity during the infant education period (3/6 years old). Namely, it analyzes the opinions held by the teachers about playing and playful behaviour showed by boys and girls. This let us show several conclusions about the relevance of playing as socialization context that helps in configuring gender schematic identities.   Key Words: infant’s education, playful behaviour, teaching thought, symbolic

It is necessary to give pedagogical content and a specific orientation for equal opportunities between sexes (Equal in What? Equal to Why?) The equal opportunities between sexes, in an educational context, must provide a space to overcome the discrimination against women on education, fostering critical thinking about socially dominating sex stereotypes, while guaranteeing the right of parents to ensure the education and teaching of their children according to their religious, philosophical and pedagogical convictions, as the Charter of Fundamental

An aggressive behaviour intends physical and / or psychological damage and could be destructive for the person who is object of the aggression in extreme situations. The article shows two studies carried out with the collaboration of families and students from different layers of the Spanish educational system: primary school, secondary school and high school. The first analysis shows the teachers´ perception in what refers to aggressive behaviour at school, the students´ reaction to them, the implications and the corrective actions proposal.

The function of occupational courses aimed at young people leaving the educational system at an early stage is in fact developing towards goals in public assistance. This change occurs within a post-Keynesian model in labour relations, which the present paper will submit to critical scrutiny, as well as under new forms of social inequality that relate to new formulations of neoliberalism as a dominant discourse, in ways that will be illustrated through samples taken from group discussions and interviews.   Key Words: Labour changes, occupational

The aim of this study is an approach to the knowledge of the social relations of 252 people with different types of disabilities, in the scope of their leisure and free time, from their own perspective by means of self assessment questionnaire. The obtained results show that in the sample there are very few significant differences in the establishment of friendship and pair relations according to the sort and type of disability. Mainly they take part in leisure and free time activities including sports their hobbies and leisure spots are the ones

In this paper, verbal interchanges throughout 12 support sessions of students with special educational needs, outside of ordinary classroom, were recorded and registered. The analysis of mediation and participation tools, obtained from the typescripts, led us to describe the main features of teacher-students verbal interaction in educational support classroom. Overall, we obtained 22 specific categories. Most of them could be classified in 2 different shapes, according to the participation that teachers asked to the students. The teachers with more