Escuela de padres de adolescentes : educar con talento

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...

In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul... For in a prison cell, a fanatical preacher is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker, its instruments the very men that...

El propósito del libro es ofrecer un conjunto de informaciones y reflexiones acerca del proceso de transformación del sistema educativo emprendido durante el periodo 2004-2008, en el que el autor participó directamente y sobre el que tuvo capacidad de influir.

La utopía es, quizá, en la actualidad, uno de nuestros mayores deberes si no queremos que, en la Escuela, el hastío -del que sabemos que nació un día de la uniformidad-, más aún que la cólera o incluso el fracaso, acabe con nuestras esperanzas. La pedagogía diferenciada no ha sido superada, decididamente. Es incluso, a nuestro entender, para el porvenir de la Escuela y, por tanto, para nuestro porvenir, el único horizonte posible hoy. Queda por esperar que este horizonte no retroceda a medida que se avanza hacia él, y queda por colocar, en un primer plano, nuestra determinación y...