Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

In the context of globalization and internationalization of higher education, increasing international students’ exchange has become an important strategy for countries to participate in international development competition. The exchanges between international universities are enormously strengthened, among which the student exchange program is one of the most important forms of cooperation. What’s more, students of foreign language universities have always been particularly active in these intercultural exchanges due to their special academic nature. This article takes Chinese students of Spanish major as an example to illustrate the current situation of Chinese students in the exchange programs with Spanish universities. This paper uses various research methods such as surveys, questionnaires and SPSS Statistics, with the aim of reviewing the problems existing in the current exchange programs and analyzing the relations between some certain variables, which helps us put forward corresponding measures and suggestions for further development and look into a broader and richer future of the exchanges and cooperation between universities worldwide in the new situation.

In recent years, the number of European education systems that have established selection procedures prior to entry into initial teacher training institutions has continued to increase, following the recommendations of international organizations, such as the OECD and the European Union. Through a document review, this paper presents the systems of access to teacher training institutions in force in Europe and synthesizes the results of the main national and international studies that have deepened this issue. The review shows the existence of three major models of access to teacher training in Europe and point at how the attractiveness of the teaching profession in each country conditions the results of such access systems. The conclusion is that studies of international scope are essential for the analysis of this topic, since they provide variability in relation to the working conditions of teaching, such as salaries or social prestige, which cannot be captured in national studies. However, it is necessary to deepen in this issue through authentic comparative research, which allows us to advance beyond the results provided by the international large-scale educational assessments. Those comparative research would make it possible to consider the different socio-educational realities of each context to analyse and interpret concrete models of access to teacher training. Likewise, they could contribute to overcoming the simplistic messages of many of the recommendations on teacher selection policies aimed at imitating the best-performing education systems.

Comparative Education is the disciplinary field that employs the comparative method as the dominant research procedure for scientific advancement in multidisciplinary and critical use. It concerns a brief diachronic incursion that is proceeding in Germany.  Its historiographical relevance is reflected by the bibliography of the German language in books as well as in articles. It is developed within the meta-theoretical and conceptual scope of the discipline, as well as in its continuity and modernity. To this end, the new globalization paradigm is outlined in the pluralistic society of the XXI century partly due to the population mobility. Allusion is made to the terminological evolution, to the relevance of Hilker's comparative model, to the programme of methodological approaches, the educational theories and to the comparative method in Germany nowadays. This is all to take place for the purpose of the labour market and for the training and research excellence context.

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This article is a first essay of classification of the main terms and concepts related to the methodology of Comparative Literature. The material is organized in three different sections. In the first section we proceed to some brief terminological and conceptual preliminary clarifications about the Comparison and Comparative Literature as a discipline. The second part describes the first comparative operation, namely the one inherent to the delimitation of the objects to be compared. The third and final part deals with the mode of comparison in its different conceptual and terminological concretions. In our analysis we have taken into account the main manuals of Comparative Literature, as well as other theoretical works about the methodology, the theory or the history of the discipline.

In the current educational approach of our country different modalities of schooling to promote educational inclusion of the students with specific need of educational support are established. Special Education is presented as alternative to the ordinary model, either in the totality of its schedule or as combined schooling. The present article aims to analyse and compare the organization, functioning and resources of two Special Education centres in very different contexts. On the one hand, Olof Palme school, placed in the middle of the Sahara Desert, in a refugee camp in the town of Tindouf (Algeria). On the other hand, the Puerta de Santa María Special Education School in Ciudad Real (Spain). It studies in depth the similarities and differences between these two centres that educate students with educational support needs. The comparison of both contexts supposes differences in the functioning or organization of the teachings. Firstly, the situation of each of these two centres is described, analysing their main aspects. Later the comparative study is carried out and the main conclusions are commented. Different data collection techniques have been used to carry out the study, mainly the interview, the direct observation and the bibliographic review. Pronounced differences between these two situations imply that the educational process of both schools is very different in terms of the available resources, both material and human, the organization and the possibilities of action.

The present research is based on the theoretical perspective of decoloniality, to understand the analytical and juridical category named "economic refugee", through bibliographical review and empirical research. It is concluded that the migratory wave existing in Brazil can not be observed from a single category, given the complexity of the phenomenon and diversity of the subjects under analysis. They are economic refugees in some cases and social migration in others, but in general, they are workers in search of better living conditions, who end up finding in the informal/precarious work in Brazil a way of sustenance of their families.

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The main conclusion of the doctoral thesis of Dr. Marín Ibáñez resolves that, freedom and commitment so fundamental and deeply defended by Sartrian thought, are inevitably impossible and impracticable with the postulates of that philosophy.

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