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This work analyzes the proposal that cinema of fiction and documentary cinema may offer a better scene on what is teachers quality, its similitudes and contrasts represented between both categories of films and with the theoretical conceptions generated by prevailing paradigms of psychology of education, that are not, apparently, until now used in this sort of framework. Conclusions suggest that the character of good teachers represented in documentaries emphasize their skills as teaching professionals versus their personal characteristics and their

This paper is an aggregate to the modern pedagogical literature facing educational inequalities. We analyze the differences of the results between the ten CCAA that participated with a wide sample in the 2006 edition of PISA. The results show that a project such as PISA, which its first intention was to improve the educational politics of the different nation-state, also allows bringing up the internal educational differences of countries. In the case of Spain this paper shows that even with a common normative frame, educational autonomic politics,

Possibilities and limits The article proposes pedagogical recover in prisons. The educational perspective is being lost. The author discusses some causes. On the one hand, the treatment is considered a set of activities to entertain the prisoners. For another, the treatment is considered a highly specialized set of therapies for certain crimes with a high social impact. This approach is reflected in the European Prison Rules. These rules do not mention the terms of re-education, rehabilitation or resocialization. The activity of prisons are carried

Achievement Goals Tendencies Questionnaire (AGTQ, Hayamizu and Weiner, 1991) was administered in a sample of 2.022 adolescents (48.9% female) with ages ranging from 12 to 16 years (M = 13.81; SD = 1.35) to analyze the gender and grade differences in academic goals. The results revealed that the academic goals varied significantly according to gender and grade of students. The girls presented a significantly higher motivational orientation toward learning goals and performance goals, while the boys showed a significantly a higher motivational profile

The main aim of this study was to show that statistically significant differences do not exist in the early mathematical abilities between boys and girls. 1053 girls and boys were assessed with the Utrecht Test for Number Sense Spanish version. Students came from 14 elementary public schools. They were in the last pre-school academic year and first grade (aged 4 to 8). A comparison of their results as a function of gender was carried out. In accordance with results, there doesnt seem to be enough evidence of statistically significant differences

This article presents the results of a research project on teacher authority in lower middle-class schools of Santiago, Chile. The main objective of this research is to characterize the meaning that pupils and teachers grant to teacher authority. We examined the reasons given by the students to explain why they obey some of their teachers; in addition, we interviewed eight teachers who were recognized by their pupils as the most respected and to whom the pupils were the most obedient. The meaning of teacher authority for the pupils and teachers

Before he was elected to become the Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been working as a University professor for many years, and even today he looks onto this task in a passionate way. In this article, we examine some of the Discourses and Letters focused on education that Pope Benedict XVI has addressed during the first four years of Papacy, in which the once professor, deals with matters in tight relation with education, its specific end, the difficulties that education has to face nowadays, and its main causes. These texts can be considered

After a short reflection on the concept of ideology, this paper considers the concept of education and the contributions of two outstanding ideologies nowadays, socialism and liberalism. It is then pointed out that the 21st century requires a different education accordingly, since phenomena like globalization, new technologies or emigration are modifying our world and our own existential context. So, the actions of the educational policies in modern democratic countries, beyond consensus or lack of political agreement, should be planned and carried

Considering the development of the Social-Cognitive theory carried out by A. Bandura, this article is aimed at analyzing the characteristics of an instrument used to assess the satisfaction among teachers of primary and secondary schools, and its relationship with the beliefs or perceptions about the effectiveness of their working environment. To this end, we selected a sample made up of 500 nonuniversity teachers (250 from primary education and 250 from secondary education) from schools in the Autonomous Community of Galicia. The subjects were