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When living in a city for a long time, one has the opportunity to see the changes that businesses undergo and to reflect upon the reasons why. Quite a few close due to the retirement of their owners. However, in many other cases, their closure is due to the fact that there was quality missing in what they were offering, not to mention imagination in order to meet the requirements of the new social circumstances. This thought came to me as the 75th anniversary of the creation of revista española de pedagogía (the Spanish Journal of Pedagogy) was

This article offers a critical analysis of emotional intelligence (EI) as a dominant discourse that establishes ways of understanding, managing, and learning about emotions in the field of education. The first section gives an overview of the recent interest in the emotional along with how the popularity of ideas associated with emotional intelligence derives from its ability to associate itself with other influential discourses that emerge from the brain sciences (neurology, cognitive psychology etc.). As part of this discussion, some of EI’s

Teachers’ digital competencies have become an essential aspect of training teachers to promote learning in their students that moves away from the knowledge transfer model and moves towards a talent development model. This work validates an instrument developed by the authors to evaluate the digital competency of teachers, in accordance with the current framework established by INTEF. A sample of 426 teachers was used in the validation process. These were approached through an online process. The total reliability of the instrument, estimated

Introduction: School failure is a major challenge at individual and social levels, owing to its negative impact on social cohesion, citizen participation, economic development, and sustainability and also its impact on health habits. Various studies have shown the link between family socio-economic level and educational results, to the point that this factor has been regarded as their principal determinant. Nonetheless, the essentially attributing school failure to the students’ milieu is only descriptive in value and could impede the development

Kohlberg’s theory about the development of moral judgement is regarded as bein very important in educational practice. This article addresses his legacy and his influence in the current educational setting, especially at university level. It will also try to note possible criticisms and misinterpretations of his ideas. To this end, relevant literature relating to the author will be analysed and discussed. There are two areas of the current university pedagogical model that draw on Kohlberg as a source: an increase in methodologies that address

Adoption is a process of creating new emotional bonds, an encounter in which bonds are built that make it possible for the child to have the support to enable it to grow in different developmental areas. This article sets out to present the results obtained from a collective case study with 21 adopted children which describes their manifestations relating to emotional expressiveness, body language, and verbal language. To do this, narrative observations of the relational psychomotricity evaluation sessions were made, biographical interviews with

This research presents a hypotheticalmodel regarding university students’ perceptions of their current preparation for entering the workforce that uses a structural regression model to connect various aspects regarding training, satisfaction, information, and career guidance programs. Its research objectives are to establish the goodness of fit of the model, analyse the relationships established among the variables, and compare the effect of career guidance on these variables. To this end, a representative sample of 931 final year undergraduate

Single sex education is still present in Spain’s school panorama within a predominantly co-educational environment. Although there are some pieces of research from English- speaking countries on the reasons for promoting or maintaining this model of schooling, there are no studies from Spain. The proposed objective of this research is to examine in depth the reasons and motivations —pedagogical and otherwise— for creating or maintaining separation by sexes in single-sex schools in Spain, and —in the principals’ perceptions— discover

The teaching of History (methodology, projects, materials), has undergone many changes from Rafael Altamira’s research over the end of the nineteenth century and first third of the twentieth century through to research by innovation groups comprising teachers in the last third of the twentieth century. This paper shows the changes and continuities in history teaching models, as well as coincidences and differences. Its aim is to present a history of innovation concerning the teaching of the discipline because, although innovation has been discontinuous