The Concept of the State in Textbooks: Analysis and Reinterpretation during the Spanish Transition to Democracy (1976-1986)

This article analyses the concept of the state as represented in primary school social science textbooks in Spain during the transition to democracy. The analysis of textbooks during this period has tended to focus on the importance of National Catholicism (Nacionalcatolicismo) or the technocratic v...

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Published in:British journal of educational studies 2020-05, Vol.68 (3), p.331-347
Main Authors: González-Delgado, Mariano, Lorenzo, Manuel Ferraz, Machado-Trujillo, Cristian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authoritarianism
Catholicism
Catholics
Cold War
Content Analysis
Democracy
Dictatorship
Educational History
Elementary School Students
Elementary schools
Foreign Countries
Foreign Policy
National Security
Neoliberalism
Social Change
Social Sciences
Textbooks
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Summary:This article analyses the concept of the state as represented in primary school social science textbooks in Spain during the transition to democracy. The analysis of textbooks during this period has tended to focus on the importance of National Catholicism (Nacionalcatolicismo) or the technocratic vision in the framing of their representations. This article points to how such representations should be viewed from a more complex perspective that lays the emphasis on how the dictatorship understood education within the context of the Cold War. The first part of the article analyses the explanations given by textbooks during the transition. The second part dissects the subsequent evolution of the representations. Lastly, we attempt to explain why these representations and changes came about.
ISSN:0007-1005
1467-8527
DOI:10.1080/00071005.2019.1645810