Paisaje y melancolía

Las sociedades modernas se caracterizan por la heterogeneidad social, cultural y lingüística. Ante ello los sistemas educativos pretenden conseguir una homogeneidad que a menudo no cumple sus objetivos. Pese a la visión de lo heterogéneo como positivo y enriquecedor, el tratamiento escolar de la diversidad continúa siendo problemático y tiende a la uniformidad en la práctica. Esto se da especialmente en el alumnado proveniente de la inmigración, con el que se desarrolla una política de incorporación al patrón cultural y lingüístico mayoritario pese a haberse asumido en cierta...

Concepto, marco jurídico y características del endeudamiento internacional. La renegociación como estrategia ante la crisis de la deuda externa.

The author travels around the world singing peace and harmony songs amongst different cultures. In one of his trips he met a 10-year-old boy who was able to twist spoons by using his brain power. He was also able to transmit images to other persons as well. Nevertheless, after this visit, no one was able to remember this boy again, except the author of the book. The little one mentioned that his name was Mark and that other children like him lived in a monastery in Bulgary. This is the journey of the author in pursuit of such group of children.

To educate in an integral manner implies not just attending to the logical and rational aspects of the mind, but also to intuition and creativity, to fantasy and irrational aspects. Basing on the more recent contributions on creativity, the authors of this book propose activities that develop intuition, imagination and fantasy; they defend creative use of language through metaphors and symbols; they teach how it is possible to develop the capacity "to think with images" among the pupils and to promote in them a playful attitude that, while at the same time extending the limits of freedom in...