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This paper presents an interpretation of twentieth-century pedagogical thought in Spain attending vitalist and synthetic perspectives.We propose an explanation of the changes in the theoretical knowledge of education that have led to the current situation. The research was conducted by studying some of the greatest exponents of General Pedagogy in Spain: Ramon Ruiz Amado, Rufino Blanco, Juan Zaragüeta, Juan Roura-Parella, Víctor García Hoz, Juan Tusquets and Alejandro Sanvisens. We expose and discuss their ideas, suggestions and influences and

In this article we present a whole vision of different perspectives and focuses that have been shaping the theoretical discourse of Environmental Education. Our objective is to analyze, on the one hand, elements that still have sense within the systematization of Environmental Education and, on the other hand, those elements which should be finding their own place as far as social and cultural contingencies and current ethics are concerned. On this basis, we redefine Environmental Education discourse as the driving force for change from a dialogical

Teaching has been a widely discussed issue in our context, especially since the implementation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The new ways of conceiving and describing the teaching, learning and assessment require a rethinking of the university pedagogy. However, this reformulation should not be limited to a psycho-pedagogical question. This paper presents the teaching work from a relational and human dimension that, not surprisingly, has also an impact on learning and student development. The communitarianism criticism of the principles

As the society integrates the inclusion model in their policies and dynamics, Universities will also articulating measures to address and respond to students with disabilities, and technology plays a crucial role as inclusive tool. The convergence process among technology, disability and education, necessarily involves the reformulation of the concept of accessibility, which has undergone an evolution from models focusing on purely technological issues to contextual approaches in which the educational scenario begins to emerge itself as an own environment.

Our experience as physical educationsport professionals leads us to observe the contradictory attitudes which the educational community holds regarding the topics of aggressiveness in games and sports. This article aims to contribute to the joint reflection about what aggressiveness is and how it is expressed in these bodily practices in the process of personal/social growth. In addition to laying out what we mean by aggressiveness and the meaning school children attribute to it, we present a proposal for intervention directed toward families who

Puppet is an ancient scenic genre perhaps even undiscovered in its educational potential. Traditionally neglected in Europe and almost forgotten in many countries around the world, today everybody recognize its cultural and literary value. However, despite the fact that many teachers find it an educational tool of first order, are still very few publications and resources that can make viable its proper use in the classroom. We face as an element that can be a first-aid in opened, creative, interdisciplinary and intercultural education, but we must

At the beginning of the 1950s, the Spanish education authorities implemented a secondary education lengthening policy, which had the goal of significantly increasing the number of students at secondary schools. They started with measures of limited scope, such as the establishment of evening studies or the so-called secciones filiales" (private suburban secondary schools subsidized by the Spanish government); yet from the 60s, the authorities tried broader efforts like the extension of the secondary schools network or the implementation of secciones

The ultimate goal of learning to read is to understand written language. This longitudinal study describes and interprets different classroom activities aimed to teach reading comprehension. The purpose was twofold, (1) to detect how teachers conceptualize reading comprehension, and (2) to follow up two teaching strategies: activation of previous knowledge and drawing of inferences. For the first purpose we observed seventy-one Kindergarten and first grade classrooms (P5 and 1P), and for the second aim, 54 second and third grade classrooms (2P and

While many theories of moral education exist, much is less known about how this virtue of prudence is developed. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to present and analyze the process through which moral virtue develops. More specifically, it shows how individuals must behave in order to grow as a moral person and achieve the good life. Drawing from the Theory of Action by Pérez López, this paper proposes that any decision situated in an interpersonal context involves learning from the decision maker and others. When the other is taken into consideration

This paper defends blended learning as a perfectly ideal alternative to the existing classical in-class university training contemplated within the framework of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The relevant decrease in classroom teaching hours for new Degrees is giving way to an ever-increasing growth in independent self-study which is slowly taking the lead. The teacher should confront and manage this new reality effectively and perhaps a good way to do so may be to extend in-class teaching to a virtual classroom environment through on-line