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This paper tackles the ever present issue of cooperation between family and school. Such cooperation is necessary if the school is to educate (i.e. facilitate the learning of moral values). Furthermore, experience is a required ingredient in the task of educating. The family is, therefore, a vital element of education since it occupies a key position in the experience of moral values. The authors advocate a change in the organizational structure of schools that will enable the family to participate actively in the running of the school and to be jointly responsible for the centre’s educational project.  Pedro Ortega Ruiz, Ramón Mínguez Vallejos y María A. Hernández Prados

Key Words: Family, school, co-operation, values, education, change, reception.

A computer program is introduced for data analysis, which could be very interesting in order to be used as a teaching or research tool. After a short historical introduction, the specific elements of this one —in relation to other traditional statistical packages— are explained. Then we offer a whole view about how the program works, and this is illustrated from some usual tasks in teaching statistics (computation of descriptive indexes, parameters estimation, statistical contrasts, etc.). Finally, some its advantages for research are commented and the paper concludes pointing out how oneself could begin to use this program. Marcos Ruiz Soler y Emelina López González

Key Words: R; statistics education; data analysis; statistical analysis; statistical modelling; statistics teaching.

Our article is insert in (fit in) one recent line of research as it is the knowledge of the material culture of the Spanish school during our contemporary past. It tries to contribute to the study of the evolution of the school material in the Normal Schools. The different conceptions and typologyies from didactic resources have been analyzed, that the training ones of teachers proposed to the educational futures during the period of the Restoration´s stage. For it, it has been used as basic sources for the history of the school material a representative sample of Manuals of Pedagogy that served as texts in the Spanish training institutions of teachers. Teresa Rabazas Romero, Sara Ramos Zamora y Julio Ruiz Berrio

Key Words: Restoration´s stage, school material, school furniture, didactic resources, manuals of pedagogy and school museums.

The aim of the research was to improve the management of the reading comprehension strategies as autonomous and reflective skills. The educational intervention consisted of two stages: a) the previously trained teaching staff applied a selfmade program for the teaching of the strategies, and b) the acquired knowledge was implemented in the classroom’s daily work. The results show that the program application increases reading comprehension on the long and short terms and reduces the effect of attitudinal variables. The results also confirm that the program’s second stage allows pupils to reflect on their own comprehension, thus enabling them to transfer the learnt strategies to all sorts of texts. It also helps teachers to intervene more efficiently in the classroom. José María Madariaga, Silvia María Chireac y Eider Goñi

Key Words: Teacher training, Reading comprehension, Comprehension strategies, Metacomprehension strategies. 

The moral constitution of society and moral education are two subjects closely linked in Durkheim’s writings. The sociologist from Alsace addresses suicide and other anomic actions from the point of view of a moralist, a social scientist reformer and a civic educator. His intention is to present anew a nucleus of values and social norms that, because of their integratory, therapeutic and moralizing value, can be used as a reliable framework for social regulation. This will be the mission of Moral Science: to reconcile science and ethics; ethics and society. The thinking of Durkheim closely links the three aspects emphasized in this paper: morality, sociology as a reformist science with attention to the pathologies, and moral education with secular orientation that is directed towards the citizens. Alfredo Rodríguez Sedano y Juan Carlos Aguilera

Key Words: Society, moral, education, anomy, citizenship.

The Town Hall of Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) has taken part for a decade in “Educating Cities” movement and as it’s been his duty to set up educational series of program targeted to the educational centers of the city council. In this article the authors evaluate four of the programs mentioned (Historic Artistic Ways, Gasteiztxo News Programme, Music Expression and Dramatic Expression). They follow this way: first, a brief description of programs is shown. Secondly, you can find the methodology used, where it highlights the methodological integration carried on mixing quantitative and qualitative strategies, both picking up some data and also analysing it. Finally the most relevant results are shown as well as the most outstanding conclusions. 

Key Words: Program Evaluation, External Evaluation, Evaluation of the impact, No Formal Evaluation, Educating Cities.

This article attempts to summarize research undertaken to design, implement and verify the adequacy of an intervention designed to promote sportspersonhip and social values desirable in sports in school. The intervention designed to be applied to coaches, parents and athletes, was conducted on a group of 245 subjects grouped into an experimental group N = 109 and N = 136 control group of football players cadet category (15-16 years). The measuring instrument used is the SVQ (Sport Value Questionnaire) Lee, Whi tehead and Balchin (2000). The results suggest that intervention aimed at athletes, parents and coaches change allows the importance of the values that sports practice passes.  Pere A. Borrás Rotger, Pere Palou Sampol, F. Xavier Ponseti Verdaguer, Josep Vidal Conti y Alex García-Mas

Key Words: Values, practice of sport, sportpersonship, fair play, intervention.