Introducción: la investigación disponible sobre el aprovechamiento educativo del podcast de audio es escasa. Se revisó la literatura publicada (2014-2019) clasificando usos, contextos y categorías del podcast de audio con fines educativos, e identificando autores y revistas de referencia en el ámbito. Metodología: se aplicó el método de Mapeo Sistemático de la Literatura a una muestra de artículos indexados de acceso abierto en las bases de datos Web of Science y Scopus. El filtrado de la muestra se llevó a cabo de acuerdo con unos criterios de inclusión y exclusión. Resultados y conclusiones: se hallaron 55 artículos que destacan los principales usos educativos del podcast y coinciden en su utilidad para apoyar el aprendizaje en instituciones y entornos educativos formales, no formales e informales. Este trabajo brinda a investigadores, educadores e instituciones una línea base actualizada para seguir explorando las virtudes educativas del podcast.

Consulta el artículo “Educación para el emprendimiento: una propuesta para el desarrollo humano” del Nº. 274 de la Revista Española de Pedagogía

Moral education can take many forms. With the end of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (UNDHRE) (1995–2004), we critically review developments in human rights education (HRE) during those ten years in the context of moral education. We argue that, despite some modest successes, the decade lacked direction and a major impact and has failed to prepare a sound basis for securing HRE internationally. These outcomes largely account for the United Nations' (UN) decision in 2005 to initiate the World Programme for Human Rights Education. Meanwhile initiatives in defining the goals and practice of HRE have happened outside the UN context. Overall the UN's contribution to building HRE and moral education has, at best, been marginally successful due in large measure to the inherent weaknesses of the organisation as well as the UN's inability to engage member states.

A renewed interest in the study of character and virtue has recently emerged in the fields of Education and Psychology. The latest research has confirmed the association between virtuous consistent behaviours and academic positive outcomes. However, the motivational dimension of character (the intentions underlying the patterns of observed behaviours) has received little attention. This research aims to extend the knowledge on this topic by examining the predictive relationships between the behavioural and motivational dimensions of character, with reference to academic engagement, career self-doubt and performance of Spanish university students. A total of 183 undergraduates aged 18–30 (142 of whom were women) from the north of Spain completed specific parts of self-report questionnaires, including the Values in Action VIA-72, a Spanish translated and validated version of the Moral Self-Relevance Measure MSR, and the Utrecht Work Engagement Student Scale UWES-S9. The collected data were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling. The behavioural dimension of character (character strength factors of caring, self-control and inquisitiveness) showed positive associations with academic engagement and performance. The motivational dimension of character (phronesis motivation), was negatively related to career self-doubt. For the first time, the present study has provided support for the contribution of both dimensions of character to undergraduate academic outcomes.

Past reviews have examined the association between positive personality traits known as character strengths and work-related outcomes. However, little is known about the role of positive traits in the pre-career stage. This study aims to fill this gap by mapping the peer-reviewed literature on the relationships between character strengths, moral motivation and vocational identity in adolescents and young adult students. Scopus and Web of Science databases were used to identify English written sources published between 1980 and October 2020. Documents had to include one of the 24 positive psychology character strengths or a moral motivation construct (moral reasoning, moral identity or moral emotions) and one vocational identity process (commitment, exploration or reconsideration). 136 documents were selected (123 quantitative, 8 qualitative, and 5 theoretical). 15 strengths were studied together with a vocational identity process. The most investigated strengths were prudence (27.9%) curiosity (20.6%), hope (20.6%) and love (19.9%). Only one moral motivation construct (the moral emotion of empathy) was associated with vocational commitment. Four character strengths were the most studied in association with vocational identity. These strengths coincided with some skills and competencies promoted in career counselling. Some suggestions for future research on vocational development and character education are stated.

El envejecimiento y la dependencia, estrechamente asociados, están poniendo a prueba el «potencial familiar de cuidados» y plantean el dilema de si la familia puede dar respuesta a estas nuevas situaciones de demanda de asistencia. Las necesidades de cuidados prolongados que tienen las personas mayores dependientes son, en ocasiones, de gran complejidad. Para desarrollarlos de manera correcta es preciso contar con formación suficiente, y hacerlo bajo la supervisión y con el apoyo de profesionales adecuados. Si no es así, las consecuencias sufridas por el cuidado constituyen un factor de tensión adicional sobre el modelo familiar de atención. La llamada «carga» del cuidador tiene incidencia sobre los familiares que cuidan, sobre el entorno familiar, económico, laboral y sobre su propia salud. Un enfoque integrado de cuidados, con una atención centrada en la familia, podría aumentar la autonomía de estas familias cuidadoras y paliar, en algún modo, sus limitaciones o sufrimientos.