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Sex and relationships education is, and has been, the great absent in Spanish both school curriculum and the sociological research on it. Some relevant theoretical and methodological developments have been needed for the construction of the research topic, in order to produce sociological knowledge within this field. This paper continues with this methodological task. It describes the process of design of an evaluation questionnaire to portray the initial state of the issue. In tum, it enables the research on sex and love relationships. In so doing, the paper offers a useful well-founded tool to produce sociological knowledge on this research topic, emerging in Spain. In this process of design, the paper sets a dialogue between a double process of categorisation: on the one hand, the themes involved in the revised literature on the topic; on the other hand, the themes offered by the adolescent voices of the subjects participants in the research. Along the paper, some key debates in contemporary social theory are addressed, such as the appeal to action research, education for democratic citizenship and human rights, the visibilisation of minors' agency and voices, the use of participatory and critical evaluation, and the reflection on power as inherent to social relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally the curriculums of medical residencies are based on an educational process that takes place within a passive environment and they focus their effectiveness on an excessive memorization. Contrary to this, the new educational approaches intend to develop, by means of a participative view, a critical attitude that recovers the experience. Thus the student, based on reflection, can select and produce his/her own knowledge and develop his/her own position in which discernment, proper judgment and conscientiousness allow him/her to solve the daily clinical problems, all of which results in a better clinical ability. Clinical ability develops under real-life situations that challenge the student's own discernment. This paper develops an educational strategy that includes clinical cases and considers the mechanism of injury in the polytraumatized patient as a source of knowledge that allows us to assess the clinical ability. A measurement instrument was designed, with a Kidder Richardson reliability coefficient of 0.77. The educational strategy was applied to eleven Orthopedics residents of all levels. This paper reviews the results of this strategy, which show an improvement in the clinical ability; proves the usefulness of the measurement instrument, and analyzes the potential scope of this new educational approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the light of the reorganization of the study plan, the problem of curricular reforms in medical schools is delimited by clarifying key concepts. Differences between curriculum and study plan are established and an attempt is made to study in depth the concepts of integrality, organisation and flexibility as variables contributing to the complexity of present curricular development in order to propose evaluation as necessary and sufficient, keeping in mind that evaluation establishes the news of difference which is essential in processes where information flow is always open to reality. The paper states that-as it happens in complex systems- evaluation in the systems of medical education is a systematic ordering of the observation of the news of difference within the different stages of the process. Its main functions and characteristics will allow for the gathering of information which is useful to the process itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the problems we have in a current society educated in the visual culture to teach Audio-visual Narrative in such a way that it takes a constant work of learning in the practical activity. Using this criterion, we begin studying the previous cultural parameters and continue with the practices, evaluation methods and feedback between pupils and teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]