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In this chapter, the authors describe the developments towards Roma inclusion in Spain through Successful Educational Actions. First, the authors describe the main characteristics of the Spanish Roma Minority with special regard to their cultural and linguistic diversity and deprivated social situation. After a brief overview of the Spanish education system, the authors give a detailed picture of the educational attainment of the Roma minority in Spain. After then the authors present and analyse the most important successful policies and support programmes for Roma education.

It was the aim to apply basic epistemological concepts, as presented by Heinz von Foerster, to current problems of medicine and biology.

The relation of genes and human behaviour is an important issue in current medical discourse. Many states and diseases are claimed to be caused by a genetical disposition. To prove the soundness of such claims, a strict methodology has to be applied.

The usual approach of combining genetical findings with observed behaviour is based on an insufficient epistemology. The neglect of recursive processes leads to misinterpretations that have far‐reaching consequences, especially if disease and therapy are concerned.

A precise analysis of recursive traits would allow more reliable models of the relation between genetical disposition and environmental influence.

The paper reflects trivial or non‐trivial relations in social behaviour that are often neglected.

“I'll never go back to that zoo!” exclaimed the General Motors Assembly Division's Vice‐President of Manufacturing. He had just toured the Lordstown plant, where he had come under fire from a shower of nuts and bolts accompanied by colourful cat‐calls. This was during the winter of 1971/72, when Lordstown, making the Vega sub‐compact car, was becoming a byword for industrial warfare and worker alienation. Yet at the end of 1976, he did go back. This time he was received with such goodwill that men came off the line to shake his hand. The President of the General Motors Corporation itself then visited the plant, planned to stay for only two hours, but was so impressed with what he saw that he remained for five. A remarkable change had taken place in labour relations at Lordstown, yet it has attracted remarkably little comment. The popular image of Lordstown is still drawn from the acute problem of some six and seven years ago.