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Schleiermacher is known as a religious philosopher for whom religion is founded in human emotions. He was a protestant theologian and a philosopher who was a contemporary of Hegel. Like Hegel, his thinking is dialectical, but realistic rather than idealistic in nature. He founded hermeneutics. Schleiermacher believes that the world is made up of opposites that, in a dialectical manner, have to be reconciled until the Highest Good has been reached. It is human beings? duty to collaborate in this process, and this is what Ethics consists of. The aim

This paper presents a study of the educational renewal and the social commitment in favour of childhood developed by one of the most outstanding schoolteachers of the early twentieth century, during the time he was working in Cartagena. Martí Alpera carried out, together with highly qualified headmasters, inspectors and College of Education lecturers, an activity of key mediation between the reception of the new educational tendencies, their regulation, the adaptation to Spanish schools and their diffusion among the teachers. Martí Alpera took

This paper reviews the furthest antecedents, in Greek classical thinking, of the two senses of the educational value «tolerance». From the old scepticism which neglects the search for truth does the permissive sense of tolerance as «everything is the same» come, which is then the line present in postmodern thinking and lifestyle. The Socratic line, however, implies tolerance as the positive acceptance of the other, from the faith that there is a truth to which we may come closer together. As a conclusion, the need to join this second line is

Research into labour related socialization reveals the transition from school education to the world of work to be a process in which an important role is played by socio-educational contexts, experiences, etc. However, not enough work has been done on the «children´s collective» for us to be able to analyse the role that is played by age, gender or type of schooling in their professional expectations. The generic objective of this article is to discover the favourite professions of children with regard to the process of labour related socialization.

This article presents a comparative analysis of practical socio-educational measures in family environments in Canada and Spain. It aims to draw conclusions about what the two regions may learn from each other. This comparative pedagogy study is the result of field research on socio-educational policies designed to prevent situations of disadvantage, risk and negligence in childhood, caused by the failure of parents to carry out their educational role properly. Studies of this type may offer guidelines for the innovation and generation of new programmes,

At present, the improvement of selfdetermined behaviour in mental retarded people is considered a most valuable educational goal. Self-determination is now the cornerstone of the new vision of disability, and that of the educational services for disabled as well as of research on special education. This article aims at reviewing the development of the selfdetermination movement and the advances in the theoretical and empirical research on this topic in the context of mental retardation.

St. Augustine inherits the pedagogical vocabulary of the Greek and Roman classics, which, in turn, had been incorporated to the Bible by the Latin translation. However, such vocabulary takes on new meanings in St. Augustine?s works. Moreover, his flexibility in the use of language becomes evident when analysing the various meanings he attaches to a single term throughout his works. For instance, he employs the term discipline with at least ten different meanings, in which the philosophical influence of Neoplatonism and Stoicism is obvious, as well