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Multiple Christian religious schools were founded in Europe and particularly Catholic schools in Spain to solve educational lacks and to transmit the message of the Gospel to the poorest. In our present days, State schools provide education for all, and it happens that a significant number of students coming from middle and high class backgrounds, go to religious schools, which seems to be uncongenial to the intention of their founders. This change of circumstances leads us to question the sense and existence of such religious education in our societies.

The first part of this article is about the beginnings of the Theory of Education in Spanish University and argues the identity of those who practise it. The second part of the article defends that the main contributions of the Theory of Education are: the idea of education as a human construction, the Theory of Education as a technology, the acquisition of competences through good educational practices, the technology of educational relation and the political contextualization of education.   Key Words: theory of education, pedagogical theory,

The purpose of this paper is to present an intervention program in academic goals with university students. With this program we try to make participants aware of academic goals importance and the advantages and disadvantages that these could have on emotional-motivational, cognitive and academic fields. Students become aware that it is possible adopt only one kind of goals or to opt for a flexible combination of goals what fits best with contextual requirements and demands are motivational alternatives.   Key Words: academic goals, intervention

This paper aims to lay the foundation for constructing an educational gerontology and thus, it examines in further depth the specialisation of education sciences related to social and demographic changes in advanced societies, the institutionalisation of ongoing education, increasing life expectancies, the existence of seniors as an important and significant social group, the growing body of research on the status of this social collective, the proliferation of educational experiences with seniors, the progressive systematisation of reflection on

This article focuses on the history of a sort of social participation that in Spain is now called â??participation of the stakeholders in relation to overall educational planningâ?, carried out by the National Education Council. This Council is an advisory body which assesses and approves the annual report on the state of education in Spain in order to advise the government. In the last few years, in the same way, there is in the European Union the European Network of Education Councils (EUNEC). It is an organization made of national/regional

Directive leadership has acquired special importance and difficulty as a consequence of the complexity and autonomy of educational centres in recent years. Therefore, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science decided in 2001 to value leadership more than the EFQM Excellence Model, assigning leadership percentages from 10. This study, based on the thoughts and aims of Spanish principals, delves into the structure of this model, analysing the influence of leadership on the rest of enabler criteria. Thus, it presents a complementary way

In parallel with the reading of the philosophy of late Roman Stoics, the following issues are raised: the essentially pedagogical task of Philosophy; the connection of Stoicism with the philosophy of Camus, in as much both conforms an education to confront the suffering and the problematic one of human existence; and the critical element of social conventions which the Stoic Philosophy maintains, recovered by Rousseau and present in his pedagogy. Finally, we will conclude with some general reflections that relate the studied elements and extract

The search for effective learning ways for the education of autistic spectrum students focuses on the development of those basic dimensions which define it. Our aim is to structure those educational schemes which make easier the integration of such development dimensions in the curriculum, as an educational target itself, as well as it becomes a process which simplifies the global development. In this sense, the Cognitive Central Coherence Theory and the description of a case study, allow us to infer the basic reference pillars over which lay the