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The aim of this article is to show the importance of the early multisensorial stimulation and parental communication with the child in the development of language in infancy. We present a synthesis of the main theoretical approaches and results of the investigation on linguistic development, with special attention to the biological and neuroanatomic bases of the acquisition of language. The plasticity of childhood development and early interventions increased by the parents through their verbal and gestual interactions, can improve the child's linguistic

Two causal explanations given by three teachers of Secondary Education were recorded and analysed. During the first lesson, the teachers developed just a few strategies to facilitate the students comprehension and causal reasoning. During the second session, developed with different groups, the introduction of a task of filling a multi-causal diagram produced significant changes in the explanation of the same content. The causal links that teachers marked verbally or that they explained more in detail, as those in which the students participated

Based on the theory of academic goals, the performance of visually impaired students is checked and compared to the typology of goals (learning goals, social reinforcement goals and performance goals) obtained in other studies (Hayamizu and Weiner, 1991; Núñez and González-Pienda, 1994; González, Torregrosa and Navas, 2002). The participants are 50 students members of the ONCE (Spanish Organization for the Blind), between 8 and 27 years old, who answer the questionnaire on goals prepared by Hayamizu, Hito and Metas académicas en alumnos con

This study attempts to relate the television viewing habits of adolescents, gathered using different indexes, to their personal values and the perceived values of their favorite television programs. The sample comprised 823 adolescents from the Basque Autonomous Region. The instruments used were: the Television Viewing Habits Questionnaire (CH-TV. 01), for viewing habits, and the Value Domain Scale (VAL-TV 0.1) for personal values and perceived values in favorite television programs. The results indicate certain correlations between some indexes

The traditional conceptualization of a collective identity linked to a state-nation is being seriously questioned. The vindication of specific identities on the part of diverse regional, ethnic or cultural groups coexists with a globalisation process that tends to the cultural standardization and the uniformity of life ways and shared values. This paper deals with the process of incorporation of the knowledge of Europe to the school culture and the outstanding role of the education in the construction of an intercultural European identity based

Although at the present time diverse investigations studies the kind of relations taking care of variables like intra and interpersonal styles in the role of grandfathers, relations after a divorce, when they must exert of parents, or the type and quality of relation have been developed when grandparents begins a degenerative process. Nevertheless, are little the studies that demonstrate the type of relation and the roles that settle down between the grandparents and their favourite grandson granddaughter. With this article it is tried to contribute

In this paper we study the training that teachers working in Madrid are currently receiving on intercultural education. In particular we show the results of our research, in which we interviewed the advisors who plan this kind of training in the Support Centres for Teachers (Centros de Apoyo al Profesorado). Some specific themes explored are: changes in the demand for training in intercultural education, the main topics covered in the training courses, the most appropriate people to give the courses, the main training areas requested by teachers

In this article, we present a concrete proposal about how to teach motor development in Kindergarten based on the use of induced learning and with a holistic and globalized approach. The proposal stems from a group of elementary PE teachers who, in a Permanent Seminar, have been working together for the last nine years. In the article, we explain the organization and functioning of this Permanent Seminar, we revise the state of motor development in Spain and analyze the foundations of our proposal paying special attention to its main characteristics.