Authors
- José Luis García Garrido
- Professor at the Spanish National Open University, Department of Education, where he is usually assigned to teaching and research tasks in the scope of Compared and International Education. He presently holds the post of Director of the National Quality and Evaluation Institute, at the Ministry of Education and Culture. He is the Chairman of the Spanish Compared Education Society, a Member of the European Academy of Art and Science, a Member of the World Council of Compared Education Societies. He belongs to several international associations and was Chairman of the Comparative Education Society in Europe from 1985 to 1988. Among his written works (20 books and more than 200 articles and essays, published in national and international magazines and publications, in several languages), one must emphasise the following ones: Fundamentos de la Educación Comparada (Dykinson 1982, 1986, 1991), Problemas Mundiales de la educación (Dykinson 1982, 1987, 1992), Sistemas educativos de hoy (Madrid 1984, 1987, 1993), Primary Education on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century (in English, French and Spanish, Paris 1986, 1987, 1988), Reformas educativas en Europa (Madrid 1994) and Diccionario Europeo de la Educación (Madrid, 1996).
- Álvaro Buj Gimeno
- University Professor. Professor of Educational Theory at the Complutense University of Madrid. Graduate in Philosophy and Literature, National Graduation Prize in Philosophy and Literature in 1961. Doctor in Pedagogy. State School Teacher and Educational Inspector (retired from both Bodies). Head of Department of Didactic Documentation and Orientation Centre in Primary Education of the MEC (1963 to 1969). Central Inspector at the Ministry of Education and Culture from 1972 to 1983. Now lectures in second and third cycle at the Complutense University in "Theory of Education", "Social Pedagogy" and "Structure and functioning of the educational system". He also holds an academic post as Inspector of Services at the Rectorate of the Complutense University of Madrid. Author or co-author of several books, usual speaker at congresses and seminars; his lines of research, explained in more than a hundred articles, are: the role of control in the educational administration, teacher training and improvement, equal opportunities and education, social training and educational institutions, intercultural education.
- Juan González Anleo
- Professor of Sociology at the University of Alcalá de Henares and Dean of the "León XIII" School of Political Sciences and Sociology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. Researcher on education and family; education, religion and youth. Collaborator in the FOESSA Report on the social situation in Spain and Madrid (1970, 1972, 1973, 1984, 1994) and the research by the Santa María Foundation. His recent publications include: Enseñar en Ávila (co-author), Sociología para educadores, Introducción a la Sociología, Catolicismo Nacional, nostalgia y crisis, Estudio sobre liberdade e religiao em Portugal, Nivel ético del profesorado español, Perfil de la Sociedad de Consumo, La emigración española en la encrucijada (co-author), El sistema educativo en España, La cultura organizacional de los centros educativos, Para comprender la Sociología, El profesorado en la España actual, Religión y sociedad en la España de los 90. He is now on the management team of the survey on Spanish Youth, 1999 by the Santa María Foundation.
- José Antonio Ibáñez-Martín
- Professor at the Complutense University, where he has lectured on "Philosophy of Education", "Ethics and Politics of Education", "Politics and Educational Legislation" and "Civic Education". The awards he has received for his publications include the Raimundo Lulio National Prize for Essay Writing, from the Senior Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), and the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences Prize, Fellow of the American Philosophy of Education Society, member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, etc. He is the Director of the magazine Revista Española de Pedagogía and Chairman of the European Institute for Educational Initiatives. His lines of research concentrate on study of the anthropological bases and critical-philosophical suppositions of the educational processes, in educational policy and legislation, with special reference to the European dimension, in civic training within the democratic systems and in professional deontology for educational activities. He has published more than ninety works in five different languages on this set of concerns.
- Arturo de la Orden Hoz
- Professor of Experimental and Differential Pedagogy at the Complutense University, at the School of Education, where he directs the Educational Research Methods and Diagnosis Department. He is Chairman of the Spanish Pedagogy Society and a member of the Executive committee of the European Educational Research Association. He is a member of several international pedagogical research and educational evaluation associations and was Chairman of the World Association of Educational Research from 1985 to 1989 and of the Inter-university Association of Experimental Pedagogy (1990-1994). He is the editor of the magazine Bordón on Educational Sciences and a member of the editorial boards of several Spanish and international pedagogical research magazines. He was also editor of the magazines Revista de Investigación Educativa and Revista Complutense. Among his publications (four books and more than 300 articles in national and international magazines), one must emphasise: Investigación Educativa (Anaya, Madrid, 1985), Evaluación Educativa (Docencia, Buenos Aires, 1983), El agrupamiento de alumnos (CSIC, Madrid, 1975), Evaluación e innovación educativa (University of Granada, Granada, 1997). His present line of research concentrates on systematic models of educational evaluation. He has directed 56 doctoral theses.
- José Luis Pérez Iriarte
- Educational Inspector and High School Professor, presently assigned as Area Head to the National Quality and Evaluation Institute. He has acted as Secretary to the Coordination Committee of the study this Report concerns.
- José Luis Rodríguez Diéguez
- Professor of Didactics at the University of Salamanca. Former State School Teacher and Educational Inspector. He has published more than twenty books, about a hundred and fifty articles and monographic works and has directed diverse collections of educational studies. His main lines of research are: A) Evaluation, syllabus design and teaching programming, with such works as; Didáctica General. Objetivos y Evaluación. Editorial Cincel, Madrid, 1985. Curriculum, acto didáctico y teoría del texto. Ediciones Anaya, Madrid, 1985. La programación del curso escolar. Editorial Escuela Española, Madrid, 1983 (collaboration with Rosario Beltrán de Tena). B) The use and assessment of the mass media as an instrument and teaching content: Las funciones de la imagen en la enseñanza. Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1978. El cómic y su utilización didáctica. Los tebeos en la enseñanza. Ed. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1988. Lenguaje y rendimiento académico. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 1992 (collaboration with S. Gallego Rico). He is Vice-Chairman of the Spanish Pedagogy Society, editor of the magazine Enseñanza, member of diverse national and international scientific associations, and he is a member of the editorial board of several professional magazines.
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