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In this paper the author deals with the different approaches used to date in intercultural education. The conceptual differences between multiculturalism and interculturalism are analysed along with their incidence on educational practices. The culturalist" approach in intercultural education which has been widespread in recent decades is criticized, and a new paradigm, the pedagogy of alterity, is offered based on ethical suppositions which are distinct from Kantian ethics. The experience of the other", ethnically or culturallydistinct, is an indispensable

Some social and political situations and many educational tasks are today, the historical result of a long process which has been shaping them; and also the current manifestation of aims and practices which have previously had other developments. It is the case of the entails and commitments that have been taking place between the concept and the practice of education, and also of the attempts of advancing or penetrating into a political democratic culture. In this paper we elaborate a historical approach which tries to announce and interpret important

This paper describes some of the changes schools need to face in order to give a better response to the specific educational needs of highly able students. The essential elements of the structure of a competence -based school vs. an age- grade locked school are exposed in order to cater for the different learning pace of the students. The special features of a didactic system called DT-PI developed by J.C Stanley during the early 70s are described. This system was designed to give an educational solution to high ability students, but it also can

This work is aimed at determining which personal variables, theoretically related to school performance, may discriminate between natives and immigrant students who pass or fail the subjects of Spanish Language and Literature and Galician Language and Literature. To this end, using a sample of 465 native students and 275 Latin American students in Secondary Education we have carried out a transversal study employing as main tools a scale for students and a protocol for teachers. With the collected data we have conducted a stepwise inclusion discriminant

The paper is based on some works of late Foucault about an affirmative vision of making of Self, what complements the nihilistic and deconstructive perspective of its previous stages. I emphasize the extraordinary importance of these lasts writings, as some recent sources, for pedagogy. From what developed in them, the pedagogy can overcomes the reductionist instrumental reason model of modernity. The paper analyzes and points out aspects of Hellenistic philosophies, especially the Stoics as Foucault notes, which may be updated and serve as guidance

The new curriculum that is being implemented since 2010 in the schools of dramatic art in Spain, involves the development of a subject, pedagogy, which is considered as core training and should be understood as a sort of theatre pedagogy. In this paper we analyze what should be the development of such a discipline as far as its purpose is focused on the development of those skills that will enable the dramatic arts graduates to become specialists in theatre education. In this direction we propose the substantive aspects we consider in the development

The literary genre of autobiography is a form of life-writing, and has become an established focus of enquiry in the social sciences, including the field of education. Autobiographical narratives of childhood comprise an emerging sub-genre in this regard, wherein the adult self attempts to recreate an alternative version of childhood past. The testimonies compiled in some autobiographical narratives of childhood reflect the processes by which personal and social identity are shaped from the distinctive perspective of a child-narrator, and may cast

The school has been widely acknowledged as the ideal context for intervention and treatment of obesity among children. This relevant rolei.e., exerting a positive influence on overweight children does not only demand PE teachers the traditional ability to increase physical activity and promote healthy lifestyles, but also disposing of specific guidelines that support their practical and theoretical knowledge and unprejudiced attitudes. The former should include elements related to the use of instruments for appropriate evaluation of obesity, verification