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This paper aims to rehabilitate leisure as one of the fundamental components of educational policy planning. Drawing on an epistemological and longitudinal analysis on leisure, we show how criteria and actions may be used to face educational challenges. This is precisely a very relevant topic nowadays, as democratic societies need, perhaps more than ever, to educate their members are free citizens, able to participate in the decision planning and taking processes. Our main argument is embedded in the first great synthesis of policy, education and

This study focuses on the social and civic dimensions of higher education; its aim is to measure the index of civic commitment among university students. We carried out a quasi-experimental field study, on a sample of 1,250 students from different faculties of the one university from the north of Spain, within the context of the training in competences. Thus, the main variable and object of analysis was civic competence. In order to evaluate this, a specially created 3-part tool was applied. It was composed of a civic education test, an attitudes

Sex is one of the factors that affect studentsâ?? academic outcomes and professional options. Although the spread of coeducation in Spain contributed to achieving social equality between men and women, there are still some gender difficulties that can be traced back to coeducation itself. This paper seeks to analyse and interpret the psychosocial effects of coeducational and single-sex schooling, in order to reach a better understanding of learning situations from a gender-based point of view. The research has been carried out through in-depth

This paper analyses the principal aspects of Jose Ortega y Gassets ratiovitalist Philosophy and its possible application to the current project of Western universities. It also clarifies the relations between the development of life and intelligence, the growing of Society, culture and University world. Ortega defends an academic model contrary to specialization and pragmatism. For him University must be linked to lifes personal world, which is the last dimension of depth and a radical vision of the individual. Here also is analyzed, confronted

The most traditional approaches to identifying students with learning difficulties, based on the psychometric criterion of discrepancy, are giving way to new paradigms stemming from research recommending the use of alternative, criteria- based procedures contrasted and validated in research results. Pooling from these new developments, this research aims to describe the construction, validation and reliability of a tool for observing and checking learning difficulties in arithmetic calculations. This tool is designed based on the scientific requirements

Changes on early mathematic competency with children in risk of learning difficulties were studied, after a computer assisted mathematic training program. A total of 128 second-year preschool boys and girls were assessed by the Early-Numeracy- Test (ENT-R). For 30 sessions, a remedial intervention was carried out using «Playing with Numbers 2.0» software.Significant differences between pre- and post- intervention for the experimental group were obtained (t =0. 486, p < 0.005). The intervention effect size also showed higher values for the experimental

This study is concerned with teaching methodology manuals published in Spanish during the period 1900-1970. They have been classified into three main categories according to two criteria, namely the title and the way in which the contents are organized. Here we present manuals in two of these categories, those dealing with pedagogy and those that focus on teaching methodology or «General Didactics». First, we carried out an exhaustive compilation of the manuals and conducted an analysis and systemisation. We then looked at two important epistemological

The idea of Educational Leadership in the school is a very important and often investigated concept, in particular in the Anglo-Saxon countries. The purpose of this passage is to suggest some educational remarks about this concept as it is reductive to limit the matter to provide an idea of leadership and then match it with the adjective educational. Accordingly after defining the characteristics of Instructional Leadership and then of Leadership for Learning, the most widespread proposals at the moment, we will look into the real nature of Educational

The present study had as main objective to adapt the Spanish version of the Test of Achievement Motivation for Learning in Physical Education (AMPET). This adaptation led to the inclusion of a new dimension that would allow the perceived motor competence to be analyzed from two perspectives, one self-perceived and the second, in comparison to others. Two studies are presented. In the first through the EFA a 4-dimensional factor theoretical structure was explored. The second study was used to confirm the model by an CFA that showed a four factor