Competence in research planning in the fourth level of Spanish Secondary Education: a case study

In the last years, “Inquiry-Based Science Education” methodologies (IBSE) are being recommended by European institutions in order to improve the competence levels and the attitudes towards science of primary and secondary school students. Therefore, the aim of this study is to test the effectiveness of an IBSE methodology, the Methodology of Problem Solving as an Investigation (MPSI), for the teaching-learning process of planning of experiments in the fourth level of Spanish Secondary Education. By means of the students’ solutions for a series of open problems, the progress in the learning of the competences related to the planning of experiments has been analyzed, along with the influence of the methodology on the development of these competencies. The results show a students’ command from higher to lower levels on: emission of hypothesis, design of the experiment, qualitative analysis, identification of variables and reformulation of the open problem. Furthermore, the Methodology has contributed to an improvement of the scientific competence in the area of planning experiments.

La publicidad, herramienta promocional del centro de anuncios Roldós y Compañía (1872-1900)

El nacimiento de los primeros centros de anuncios en España data de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Uno de ellos es Roldós y Compañía. En un período en el que la publicidad es una actividad incipiente, los primeros profesionales recurren a lo que mejor saben hacer para darse a conocer: anuncios. A través del estudio de la autopublicidad de esta agencia realizada durante las últimas décadas del siglo XIX no solo veremos el progresivo desarrollo de este tipo de piezas (formal y de contenidos) sino también la evolución de todos los agentes que participan en la actividad: agencia, anunciantes y medios de comunicación. En este contexto, el centro de anuncios hace las veces de anunciante y de agencia. Es decir, ejerce una triple función: es el emisor del mensaje y es, a la vez, quien lo confecciona y quien gestiona su inserción en los medios. La historia de la publicidad se escribe junto a la agencia Roldós y Compañía. Por tanto su autopublicidad es un fiel reflejo de todo cuanto ha ocurrido en España desde el nacimiento de la profesión hasta finales del siglo XIX, un período caracterizado por la frecuente presencia de este tipo de anuncios en la prensa escrita del momento.

"Lancea", Lusitanian Word, and the "Lancienses" Ethnogenesis

Analysis of the word lancea, of Hispanic origin after Varro, and of place names, people´s names and personal names derived from it. It confirms that the spear was the most important weapon in the Bronze Age, belonging to the iuventus and used as heroic and divine symbol. This analysis confirms also the personality of the Lusitanians, a people related to the Celts but with more archaic archaeological, linguistic and cultural characteristics originated in the tradition of the Atlantic Bronze in the II millennium BC. It is also relevant to better know the organisation of Broze and Iron Age societies and the origin of Indo-Europeans peoples in Western Europe and of pre-Roman peoples of Iberia.

The Formation of a Liberal Thinker: Georg Jellinek and his Early Writings (1872 – 1878)

Georg Jellinek is known as one of the most prominent representative of German legal positivism. This article aims at identifying and discussing the more theoretical- political connotation of Jellinek’s thought with a particular focus on his liberal inspiration. According to the perspective of the history of political thought, this article shows how some intellectual premises to Jellinek’s liberalism take shape and emerge from a series of young Jellinek’s writings on history of philosophy and history of ideas.