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In this paper, we describe the elements that characterize the teaching of Mathematics in the Ave María Schools, founded and run by Andrés Manjón in Granada between 1889 and 1923. He stood up for a peculiar model of integrated education, based on Christian values, and he also developed his own methodological principles, similar in many ways to those of the emerging École Nouvelle. The selection and analysis of several sources has allowed us to set his teaching of Mathematics within this pedagogical framework and has suggested us the idea that the strategies used by Manjón in order to teach Arithmetic and Geometry could be innovative at that time and, perhaps, valuable from the point of view of contemporary Didactics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focusses on the specificity of study the body. To perform this task we carried out four reflections to think how to investigate the object body: that it is an epistemic limit begin conceiving as essential or a material object that, therefore, strictly speaking we do not study bodies but practices which take the body as an study object, that implies necessarily interpreting and questioning the body as plural - in other words, not presuppose it as a holistic uniqueness or as a dualistic unity, or a union result of an integration of parts - and that investigate the body undertakes to think about the historical socio-cultural context in which that practice investigated develops, as well as those who carry it out -what we have called the framework body-subject-political-. Towards the end of this text, as appendix, we outline a set of guidelines about the specificity of analyzing the education of the body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]