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Languages: English with extended summary in Spanish, Spanish with extended summary in English The works included in this volume offer a comprehensive approach to the updating of theories, methodological innovation and empirical application in relation to the most central problems in the educational process, in three sections: adult-child interaction in family and experimental contexts; teacher-pupil interaction in the school context; and learning and development in peer interaction. This volume is a clear exponent of the vigour of the sociocultural approach, from which it emphasises the cultural, social and communicative nature of learning, development and the construction of knowledge. Idio...
In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects. Rather than focusing only on the United States, as ...
Languages: English with extended summary in Spanish, Spanish with extended summary in English This volume brings together diverse contributions on culture and education undertaken on the basis of the sociocultural approach. The book gives the reader some thematic variety and conceptual diversity that are difficult to find in any other current selection, allowing the reader to have direct access (with no other restrictions than that of the quantity of articles s/he is faced with), to what is the essence of the socio-cultural paradigm in today’s world: very diverse answers to very different cultural situations in different parts of the world, provided by groups of researchers and practitione...
Contiene los resultados de diversas investigaciones realizadas en el marco del III Informe CIIMU sobre la situación de la infancia y sus familias.
Síntesis de los resultados alcanzados por los proyectos de investigación promovidos o financiados por la Administración educativa.
La pobreza infantil tiene una escasa visibilidad en la sociedad y, en particular, en las políticas públicas. Sin embargo, los últimos datos sobre la vulnerabilidad en la que se encuentra la infancia en España, son de por sí alarmantes. Posiblemente la crisis que estamos sufriendo actualmente suponga que en un futuro próximo esta situación empeore, a no ser que se empleen recursos y se diseñen y planifiquen políticas sociales específicamente dirigidas a paliar la situación de la infancia más vulnerable. 2010 fue, sin duda, un año crucial en el ámbito europeo para la lucha contra la pobreza y la exclusión social de la infancia. Este impulso se debió a la entrada en vigor de...
¿Por qué no aprenden a leer o escribir bien ciertos alumnos/as? ¿Cómo se detecta la causa de sus dificultades? ¿Por qué no saben resolver problemas matemáticos? ¿Qué estrategias utilizar en el aula cotidianamente? El libro ofrece propuestas de solución a esta problemática.