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The article intends to review the discussions on education in three moments of the Spanish constitutional history: 1812, 1931, and 1978. Based on the analysis of the records of the parliamentary debates in each constitutional process, it comes to the conclusion that in 1812, and in 1978, a consensus was attained by the main political forces present in Parliament, whereas in 1931 a very important sector of Parliament, and of Spanish society (roman catholic) was excluded from the main decisions regarding education. Anyway, it must be remembered the

Schools are required to educate students in community and citizenship. This overall aim comprises a number of specific objectives: to communicate a set of contents, to foster certain values and attitudes, and to develop a range of skills. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings from a survey dealing with issues related to Citizenship Education (CE); 1,557 third-year students in secondary education in the Zaragoza region were surveyed. The paper is structured as follows: first, the international framework within which CE is promoted

The characteristics of current society and the interest about citizenship education in the context of lifelong learning are essential to a study that aims to describe and understand the development of social and civic competence in the educational field. A Delphi study can make a proposal in which the social and civic competence is composed of 89 items organized into five areas: knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and behaviours. In parallel, the study of a school in Sevilla discovers didactic strategies and organizational processes that benefit

The aim of this investigation is to verify if the results are the same that the experts have achieved in other studies with adults and in what degree or they are different from them. The participants have been 191 students of secondary education. Of them, 86 were women, and 105 men. His socioeconomic level was average. The students were asked to estimate their own and their family intelligence. The results confirm that the women give lower estimates of their intelligence than men, especially in the mathematical and spatial intelligence. The findings

Educational fads make educators pay attention to certain competences and experiences, maybe neglected in the past. However, educators should not allow these fads hide experiences that also have to be educated in order to build a tolerant, fair and solidary society. We consider forgiveness as a basic experience and we believe that the school is an appropriate context to educate in it. For this task, the teacher has to know what forgiveness is and what it is not, which actions facilitate it and which make it more difficult. So he or she will be able

The progression of the conceptions about the methodology of teaching of a sample of prospective secondary education science teachers in their initial teacher education, attending to distinct moments of his formative process, conceive was studied by analyzing the methodological proposals they expressed in their practicum reports. The commonest proposals were related to transitional teaching models, at an intermediate position between a traditional focus on direct transmission of the curriculum and an inquiry-oriented classroom practice.

Spanish Universities have diversified the ways to entrance for adult students and have recognized labor competences to this proposal. They have designed one system which let people over 40 with professional experience to continue education at Higher Education level and a second system, let people over 45 without that experience to attend this educative level. This report aims at describing and analyzing these new systems and also the results of the first implementation (number of candidates, people who pass exams and number of enrollment), using

The educational transition between Early Childhood Education and Primary Education is an important change for children that is not always considered with the importance that it deserves. Various researches have verified that undergoing this transition successfully has for their academic future. In this research we analyze the teachers, families and childrens views about this transition process, taking into consideration that listening the childrens voice about a topic that directly affects them will help us obtain a more complete vision of this

This paper presents a didactic sequence proposal, jointly designed by university and high school teachers of English and Spanish (Región del Bio Bio, Chile), which aims at supporting students development of writing skills through the application of a wiki as a computer mediated collaborative tool. For this purpose, the paper provides a conceptual framework which supports the proposal, followed by a writing didactic sequence design, based on the process writing approach, the collaborative learning theory, and computer mediated communication.