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The revista española de pedagogía (Spanish Journal of Pedagogy or rep) is one of the oldest journals in the world dealing with pedagogical research. During the several decades it has been published, the revista española de pedagogía has always maintained the highest standards of quality and it has gained international awards.

The logo of the journal is a wheel, a symbol that wants to evoke several ideas: creativity and forward motion, the wisdom eye that enters into the knowledge of reality, the sun that radiates knowledge and makes ideas shine more clearly, as well as the globe, the sign of an education that is interested in the society where it belongs. This symbol, together with some other figures, is represented in the famous picture painted by Raphael entitled “the School of Athens”, in recognition of one of the most important moments of Pedagogy.


The Home page includes a summary of the articles published in the last number of the Journal.

Teaching quality in cinema: semblances and contrasts between fiction movies and documentary movies
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by Cándido Genovard Rosselló, David Casulleras Femenia y Concepción Gotzens Busquets   
This work analyzes the proposal that cinema of fiction and documentary cinema may offer a better scene on what is teacher’s quality, its similitude’s and contrasts represented between both categories of films and with the theoretical conceptions generated by prevailing paradigms of psychology of education, that are not, apparently, until now used in this sort of framework. Conclusions suggest that the character of good teachers represented in documentaries emphasize their skills as teaching professionals versus their personal characteristics and their emotional relation with their pupils, which are prominent in fiction cinema.

Moreover, it appears that the documentary film does not escape the belief, deeply rooted in our society, that the good professor is preferably a vocational rather than professional. Thus, both models are far from representing a profile set to teacher quality as the available scientific information so far recollected. Those two unlike attempts call for a new revision of the topic from more accurate iconic sources. Cándido Genovard Rosselló, David Casulleras Femenia y Concepción Gotzens Busquets

Key Words: Education and movies, Teachers’ evaluation, Models of quality teaching in movies.


 
The results of the PISA-2006 from the perspective of educational inequalities: a comparative view be
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by Ferrán Ferrer, Óscar Valiente y José Luis Castel   
This paper is an aggregate to the modern pedagogical literature facing educational inequalities. We analyze the differences of the results between the ten CCAA that participated with a wide sample in the 2006 edition of PISA. The results show that a project such as PISA, which its first intention was to improve the educational politics of the different nation-state, also allows bringing up the internal educational differences of countries. In the case of Spain this paper shows that even with a common normative frame, educational autonomic politics, so as to certain contextual factors, might produce very different educational results. Ferrán Ferrer, Óscar Valiente y José Luis Castel

Key Words: educational inequalities, PISA, comparative education, interregional comparison.


 
The pedagogical action in jails
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by Fernando Gil Cantero   
Possibilities and limits The article proposes pedagogical recover in prisons. The educational perspective is being lost. The author discusses some causes. On the one hand, the treatment is considered a set of activities to entertain the prisoners. For another, the treatment is considered a highly specialized set of therapies for certain crimes with a high social impact. This approach is reflected in the European Prison Rules. These rules do not mention the terms of re-education, rehabilitation or resocialization.

The activity of prisons are carried out, especially volunteers. There is no a professional educational diagnosis. This article also analyzes the theoretical difficulties to be able to think the educative possibilities about closed environments. Our proposal is that reeducation supposes to promote the principle of activity in the prisoner and to understand the sentence like a time of activity very controlled.

As examples of this line are mentioned the Good Lives Model- Comprehensive applied to the prisoners and the calls “modules of the respect”. In both cases a certain educative attempt can be observed to create the conditions that help the prisoners to live the experience on the personal change. Fernando Gil Cantero

Key Words: Education in jails. European Prison Rules. Non Governmental Organizations in Prisons.


 
Early math skills differences in 4-8 year old boys and girls
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by José I. Navarro Guzmán, Manuel Aguilar Villagrán, Manuel García Sedeño, Inmaculada Menacho Jiménez,   
The main aim of this study was to show that statistically significant differences do not exist in the early mathematical abilities between boys and girls.
1053 girls and boys were assessed with the Utrecht Test for Number Sense Spanish version. Students came from 14 elementary public schools. They were in the last pre-school academic year and first grade (aged 4 to 8). A comparison of their results as a function of gender was carried out. In accordance with results, there doesn’t seem to be enough evidence of statistically significant differences in the mathematical abilities between boys and girls. These data match with other current studies.

Key Words: early math, gender, gender differences, Utrecht Test for Number Sense, UTNS.

 
Teacher Induction: An Essential Element at the Start of Teachers' Carreers
Nº 200, enero-abril 1995
Written by J.H.C. Vonk   
Las investigaciones realizadas sobre los inicios en la profesión docente, señalan el dato de que una mayoría de los profesores principiantes vive su primer año de trabajo en la enseñanza como una experiencia problemática y estresante. Durante el primer año los profesores van a desarrollar su propia identidad profesional: un autoconcepto sobre cómo soy yo como profesor, y, al mismo tiempo tienen que aprender a utilizar los recursos personales de que disponen para enfrentar con éxito las situaciones de enseñanza.

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Gender and grade differences in academic goals in compulsory secondary education students
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by Beatriz Delgado, Cándido J. Inglés, José M. García-Fernández, Juan L. Castejón y Antonio Valle   

Achievement Goals Tendencies Questionnaire (AGTQ, Hayamizu and Weiner, 1991) was administered in a sample of 2.022 adolescents (48.9% female) with ages ranging from 12 to 16 years (M = 13.81; SD = 1.35) to analyze the gender and grade differences in academic goals. The results revealed that the academic goals varied significantly according to gender and grade of students. The girls presented a significantly higher motivational orientation toward learning goals and performance goals, while the boys showed a significantly a higher motivational profile toward social reinforcement goals. The orientation toward learning goals and performance goals increased significantly with academic grades, from 2º to 4º and from 1º to 4º of compulsory secondary education, respectively. Contrarily, the motivational orientation toward social reinforcement goals diminished significantly with the years from 1º to 3º and to 4º of compulsory secondary education. Beatriz Delgado, Cándido J. Inglés, José M. García-Fernández, Juan L. Castejón y Antonio Valle

Key Words: Learning Goals, Social Reinforcement Goals, Performance Goals, Gender, Grade, Secondary Education

 

 
Teacher authority in schools in underprivileged sectors in Santiago, Chile
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by Guillermo Zamora Poblete y Ana María Zerón Rodríguez   

This article presents the results of a research project on teacher authority in lower middle-class schools of Santiago, Chile. The main objective of this research is to characterize the meaning that pupils and teachers grant to teacher authority.

We examined the reasons given by the students to explain why they obey some of their teachers; in addition, we interviewed eight teachers who were recognized by their pupils as the most respected and to whom the pupils were the most obedient. The meaning of teacher authority for the pupils and teachers constitutes the object of this study. Guillermo Zamora Poblete y Ana María Zerón Rodríguez

Key Words: teacher authority, school experiences, high school education in Chile.

 

 
The present situation of “educational emergency”. A vision from Pope Benedict XVI’s experience
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by María García Amilburu   
Before he was elected to become the Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been working as a University professor for many years, and even today he looks onto this task in a passionate way. In this article, we examine some of the Discourses and Letters focused on education that Pope Benedict XVI has addressed during the first four years of Papacy, in which the once professor, deals with matters in tight relation with education, its specific end, the difficulties that education has to face nowadays, and its main causes. These texts can be considered as valuable contributions in order to understand some aspects of the present educational crisis, that Benedict XVI describes as a moment of “educational emergency”. María García Amilburu

Key Words: Pope Benedict XVI, education, “educational emergency”, relativism, secularism.


 
Ideology, Education and Educational Policies
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by Jesús Hernández García   
After a short reflection on the concept of ideology, this paper considers the concept of education and the contributions of two outstanding ideologies nowadays, socialism and liberalism. It is then pointed out that the 21st century requires a different education accordingly, since phenomena like globalization, new technologies or emigration are modifying our world and our own existential context. So, the actions of the educational policies in modern democratic countries, beyond consensus or lack of political agreement, should be planned and carried out stressing the four main issues which in turn were the highlights of each educational approach: efficiency and quality within liberalism, equity and participation in left wing trends. Jesús Hernández García

Key Words: ideology, educational policies, efficiency, education quality, equity, participation.


 
Job effectiveness and satisfaction among non-university teachers: review of an assessment instrument
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by Miguel Á. Santos Rego, Agustín Godás Otero, Mª Del Mar Lorenzo Moledo y José A. Gómez Fraguela   
Considering the development of the Social-Cognitive theory carried out by A. Bandura, this article is aimed at analyzing the characteristics of an instrument used to assess the satisfaction among teachers of primary and secondary schools, and its relationship with the beliefs or perceptions about the effectiveness of their working environment. To this end, we selected a sample made up of 500 nonuniversity teachers (250 from primary education and 250 from secondary education) from schools in the Autonomous Community of Galicia. The subjects were asked to fill in a questionnaire made up of 43 closed-category questions in Likert scale format. Two confirmatory factorial analyses were performed in order to check whether the factorial structure of the scale was the expected one according to its size, which led us to a 13-item scale with a good reliability (a=.958) and validity.
Moreover, the results and proper adjustment that we obtained allow us to establish a very rough framework of the influence relations between the different dimensions proposed by the final model. Miguel Á. Santos Rego, Agustín Godás Otero, Mª Del Mar Lorenzo Moledo y José A. Gómez Fraguela

Key Words: auto-effectiveness, collective effectiveness, scale, non-university teachers, job satisfaction


 
Antología de poetas y prosistas españoles
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by José Antonio Ibáñez-Martín   
There are no translations available.

Montero Alonso, José (1930).
Antología de poetas y prosistas españoles.
(Madrid, Renacimiento).
Edición facsímil con prólogo de José Montero Reguera y Alexia Dotras Bravo (2009).
(Vigo, Tórculo Artes Gráficas) 450 pp.

Alguna vez se ha calificado nuestra civilización como la del desperdicio y realmente son hoy numerosos los productos de usar y tirar, que van desde los teléfonos móviles a muchos libros, que tienen un éxito inmediato, pero que al poco tiempo aparecen en las ferias de libros antiguos a un mínimo precio. No ocurre eso con los clásicos, con aquellos libros que, por diversas circunstancias, han acertado en el tratamiento de alguna de las dimensiones del ser humano, libros que, por ello, siguen leyéndose con interés. Esto es, precisamente, lo que ocurre con el libro de Montero Alonso Antología de poetas y prosistas españoles, publicado en 1930, y que, a pesar de la juventud que entonces tenía su autor, se convirtió inmediatamente en un trabajo necesario para cualquier historia de los libros destinados a la infancia, pues se trata de la primera antología galardonada con la máxima distinción literaria española de entonces: el Premio Nacional de Literatura en su convocatoria de 1928.


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Who are we
Written by Administrator   

The revista española de pedagogía (ISSN 0034-9461) was founded in 1943 by the “Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas” (Spanish National Research Council) and it is published since 1995 by the “Instituto Europeo de Iniciativas Educativas” (European Institute for Educational Initiatives). The journal has a research nature and a universal vocation. Therefore, it publishes original documents from all around the world, provided that they comply with the scientific requirements and that they aim not only to bring light to the different dimensions of educational action but also to exercise a more humanizing, critical and effective professional practice. It is the first journal published in Spanish that has been included in the Social Sciences Citation Index, which contains a section on education where most of the journals are published in English. Besides, it is also included in the Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition and in the Social Scisearch, as well as in many other databases such as ISOC, Latindex, FRANCIS, etc.

 

 
Antropologia pedagogica novecentesca e senso dell’agire.
Nº 245, enero-abril 2010
Written by Javier Laspalas   
There are no translations available.

Balduzzi, Emanuele (2009).
Antropologia pedagogica novecentesca e senso dell’agire.
(Milán, Vita & Pensiero) 283 pp.

Al menos desde que Marshall Mcluhan alcanzó notoriedad internacional, el estudio de las relaciones entre la técnica y la formación humana ha sido una preocupación recurrente en el ámbito de la Pedagogía. En buena medida, la reflexión ha ido en este terreno a remolque de los avances tecnológicos, lo que explica que la mayor parte de la bibliografía se haya centrado en temas de actualidad, que a medio plazo se han visto casi por completo eclipsados por otros. Los medios de comunicación, en especial los audiovisuales, fueron desplazados en su momento por la informática, pero hoy el tema estrella es Internet.
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