Tamar Groves
Biographic Data
| ID | 5906526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamar Groves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamar |
| FAMILY NAME | Groves |
| SIGNATURE | GROVES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Extremadura |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0494-6085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system
The place of religion in public life has not diminished as predicted by modernization and secularization theories in the mid-1970s. Education is an especially sensitive issue in debates over moral and civic issues related to religious worldviews and institutions. Due to the death of the Spanish dictator in 1975, catholic sectors lost an important ally and were forced to reposition themselves in relation to the state. This paper examines how this …
Global education governance
In recent years, international organisations have played a key role in global educational governance, significantly influencing national educational policies worldwide. For this reason, historians of education have manifested a growing interest in the origins and mechanisms that support and extend this phenomenon. In this article, we trace how this research has enabled the field of the history of education to leverage its key strengths and contri…
Abrir las puertas a otros mundos”
Esta investigación analiza el desarrollo del programa de becas en el extranjero de la UNESCO en España y su relación con los procesos de modernización educativa durante la dictadura franquista y los primeros años de la democracia. El trabajo comienza con una pequeña aproximación a la importancia que, desde un punto de vista teórico, tiene estudiar los programas de becas para comprender los procesos de transferencia y configuración de discursos ed…
Distilling the comparative essence of teachers’ centres in England and Spain 1960-1990
This paper seeks to examine a specific development in the history of teacher education to explore whether it might illuminate and inform contemporary debate. It offers a historical/comparative analysis of the contribution of teachers’ centres to the professional development of teachers in England and Spain during the late 1960s to the early 1990s. In looking back to the impact that teachers’ centres had on teachers in these very different social …
Resistance through Teachers’ Professional Development
Educationalists can be agents of change. This is one of the ideas that best characterizes the pedagogical legacy of Célestin Freinet. The French educator has been studied for his contributions to the popular and rural school, usually through the study of his techniques. However, we maintain that his pedagogical legacy in the Spanish context also included a decisive contribution to the empowerment of teachers by fomenting a dense net of self-train…
Prefiguring a democratic state
This article aims to contribute to contemporary understanding of student activism dynamics by using insights from prefiguration literature. We use practical prefiguration and conceptual prefiguration to analyse student protests against education reform in Myanmar in 2014–2015. Using in-depth interviews with student activists, their list of educational demands, and secondary sources regarding educational legislation, we unpack the complex relation…
The generation that will inherit Syria’
Grassroots initiatives to provide education were an integral part of efforts to stem the humanitarian disaster unleashed by the armed conflict in Syria. This article studies activists who organised informal schooling for children amid the devastating war. Building on life story interviews, we highlight the versatility of initiatives in the field of education for citizens who simultaneously engage in humanitarian action and mobilise for political …
La Unesco y la Ley General de Educación
This article analyzes the influence that the educational ideas proposed by UNESCO had on the development of the General Education Act (LGE) of 1970. More specifically, it attempts to establish the impact that this international organization had on the origin and development of the LGE during the Franco regime. To do so, the first part of the article studies the beginnings of UNESCO in Spain and how the educational conception that would give rise …
Micro-machismo and discrimination in academia
The history of the university has been the history of a patriarchal institution traditionally dominated by men. The aim of this article is to show that women have suffered and continue suffering an unequal treatment in academia. The methodology used is qualitative, using forty-three in-depth interviews with academics of a Spanish public university. Experiences and practices that violate the right to equality in academia emerge from their discours…
Women and universities in El País (1977-2011)
The practice of historical research in recent years has been substantially affected by the emergence of the so-called digital humanities. New computer tools have been appearing, software systems capable of processing vast quantities of information in ways that until recently were inconceivable. Text mining and social network analysis techniques are sophisticated instruments that can help render a more enriching reading of the available data and d…
Ten years of science news
This article presents our study of science coverage in the digital Spanish press over the last decade. We employed automated information retrieval procedures to create a corpus of 50,763 text units dealing with science and technology, and used automated text-analysis procedures in order to provide a general picture of the structure, characteristics and evolution of science news in Spain. We found between 6% and 7% of science coverage, a clear hig…
Civic education and visions of war and peace in the Spanish transition to democracy
This article explores visions of war and peace in the education system during the Spanish transition to democracy. During those years, the Spanish state was faced with the challenge of leaving its authoritarian political past behind and forging a democratic civic culture. As the concepts of war and peace are inextricably linked to those of state and citizenship, they are a useful tool with which to examine changes in civic education. A wide varie…
Imagining a Democratic Future, Forgetting a Worrisome Past
In 1970 the Franco regime enacted the General Law of Education. The law was one of the dictatorship’s attempts to cultivate a liberal image that would lend legitimacy to its authoritarian political project. The declared main aspiration of the reform was to democratize education. However, at the time when this liberal text was published, the dictatorship was struggling for survival and its liberal gestures were accompanied, side-by-side, by the ol…
Political Transition and Democratic Teachers
The success of Spain’s transformation from a dictatorship to a stable democracy has triggered a lively discussion about the factors which contributed to the process. The question of civic participation in Spain’s political transformation has proved highly controversial and I suggest that observing professional domains and their implications for citizen formation processes provides a new way to evaluate the civic contribution to Spain’s democratiz…
Looking up to Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire’s pedagogy was developed in reaction to the state of “periphery” of illiterate farmers in Brazil and Chile. However, his thinking, which illuminated capitalism’s oppressive nature in the classrooms, was enthusiastically accepted in the “centre” and he became a global point of reference for social action. In this article I trace his influence in Spain in the midst of its transformation from a marginalised country on the outskirts of E…
Looking up to Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire’s pedagogy was developed in reaction to the state of “periphery” of illiterate farmers in Brazil and Chile. However, his thinking, which illuminated capitalism’s oppressive nature in the classrooms, was enthusiastically accepted in the “centre” and he became a global point of reference for social action. In this article I trace his influence in Spain in the midst of its transformation from a marginalised country on the outskirts of E…
Prefiguring a democratic state
This article aims to contribute to contemporary understanding of student activism dynamics by using insights from prefiguration literature. We use practical prefiguration and conceptual prefiguration to analyse student protests against education reform in Myanmar in 2014–2015. Using in-depth interviews with student activists, their list of educational demands, and secondary sources regarding educational legislation, we unpack the complex relation…
Civic education and visions of war and peace in the Spanish transition to democracy
This article explores visions of war and peace in the education system during the Spanish transition to democracy. During those years, the Spanish state was faced with the challenge of leaving its authoritarian political past behind and forging a democratic civic culture. As the concepts of war and peace are inextricably linked to those of state and citizenship, they are a useful tool with which to examine changes in civic education. A wide varie…
Imagining a Democratic Future, Forgetting a Worrisome Past
In 1970 the Franco regime enacted the General Law of Education. The law was one of the dictatorship’s attempts to cultivate a liberal image that would lend legitimacy to its authoritarian political project. The declared main aspiration of the reform was to democratize education. However, at the time when this liberal text was published, the dictatorship was struggling for survival and its liberal gestures were accompanied, side-by-side, by the ol…
Looking up to Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire’s pedagogy was developed in reaction to the state of “periphery” of illiterate farmers in Brazil and Chile. However, his thinking, which illuminated capitalism’s oppressive nature in the classrooms, was enthusiastically accepted in the “centre” and he became a global point of reference for social action. In this article I trace his influence in Spain in the midst of its transformation from a marginalised country on the outskirts of E…
Imagining a Democratic Future, Forgetting a Worrisome Past
In 1970 the Franco regime enacted the General Law of Education. The law was one of the dictatorship’s attempts to cultivate a liberal image that would lend legitimacy to its authoritarian political project. The declared main aspiration of the reform was to democratize education. However, at the time when this liberal text was published, the dictatorship was struggling for survival and its liberal gestures were accompanied, side-by-side, by the ol…
Political Transition and Democratic Teachers
The success of Spain’s transformation from a dictatorship to a stable democracy has triggered a lively discussion about the factors which contributed to the process. The question of civic participation in Spain’s political transformation has proved highly controversial and I suggest that observing professional domains and their implications for citizen formation processes provides a new way to evaluate the civic contribution to Spain’s democratiz…
Ten years of science news
This article presents our study of science coverage in the digital Spanish press over the last decade. We employed automated information retrieval procedures to create a corpus of 50,763 text units dealing with science and technology, and used automated text-analysis procedures in order to provide a general picture of the structure, characteristics and evolution of science news in Spain. We found between 6% and 7% of science coverage, a clear hig…
Civic education and visions of war and peace in the Spanish transition to democracy
This article explores visions of war and peace in the education system during the Spanish transition to democracy. During those years, the Spanish state was faced with the challenge of leaving its authoritarian political past behind and forging a democratic civic culture. As the concepts of war and peace are inextricably linked to those of state and citizenship, they are a useful tool with which to examine changes in civic education. A wide varie…
Micro-machismo and discrimination in academia
The history of the university has been the history of a patriarchal institution traditionally dominated by men. The aim of this article is to show that women have suffered and continue suffering an unequal treatment in academia. The methodology used is qualitative, using forty-three in-depth interviews with academics of a Spanish public university. Experiences and practices that violate the right to equality in academia emerge from their discours…
Women and universities in El País (1977-2011)
The practice of historical research in recent years has been substantially affected by the emergence of the so-called digital humanities. New computer tools have been appearing, software systems capable of processing vast quantities of information in ways that until recently were inconceivable. Text mining and social network analysis techniques are sophisticated instruments that can help render a more enriching reading of the available data and d…
La Unesco y la Ley General de Educación
This article analyzes the influence that the educational ideas proposed by UNESCO had on the development of the General Education Act (LGE) of 1970. More specifically, it attempts to establish the impact that this international organization had on the origin and development of the LGE during the Franco regime. To do so, the first part of the article studies the beginnings of UNESCO in Spain and how the educational conception that would give rise …
Resistance through Teachers’ Professional Development
Educationalists can be agents of change. This is one of the ideas that best characterizes the pedagogical legacy of Célestin Freinet. The French educator has been studied for his contributions to the popular and rural school, usually through the study of his techniques. However, we maintain that his pedagogical legacy in the Spanish context also included a decisive contribution to the empowerment of teachers by fomenting a dense net of self-train…
Prefiguring a democratic state
This article aims to contribute to contemporary understanding of student activism dynamics by using insights from prefiguration literature. We use practical prefiguration and conceptual prefiguration to analyse student protests against education reform in Myanmar in 2014–2015. Using in-depth interviews with student activists, their list of educational demands, and secondary sources regarding educational legislation, we unpack the complex relation…
The generation that will inherit Syria’
Grassroots initiatives to provide education were an integral part of efforts to stem the humanitarian disaster unleashed by the armed conflict in Syria. This article studies activists who organised informal schooling for children amid the devastating war. Building on life story interviews, we highlight the versatility of initiatives in the field of education for citizens who simultaneously engage in humanitarian action and mobilise for political …
Abrir las puertas a otros mundos”
Esta investigación analiza el desarrollo del programa de becas en el extranjero de la UNESCO en España y su relación con los procesos de modernización educativa durante la dictadura franquista y los primeros años de la democracia. El trabajo comienza con una pequeña aproximación a la importancia que, desde un punto de vista teórico, tiene estudiar los programas de becas para comprender los procesos de transferencia y configuración de discursos ed…
Distilling the comparative essence of teachers’ centres in England and Spain 1960-1990
This paper seeks to examine a specific development in the history of teacher education to explore whether it might illuminate and inform contemporary debate. It offers a historical/comparative analysis of the contribution of teachers’ centres to the professional development of teachers in England and Spain during the late 1960s to the early 1990s. In looking back to the impact that teachers’ centres had on teachers in these very different social …
Global education governance
In recent years, international organisations have played a key role in global educational governance, significantly influencing national educational policies worldwide. For this reason, historians of education have manifested a growing interest in the origins and mechanisms that support and extend this phenomenon. In this article, we trace how this research has enabled the field of the history of education to leverage its key strengths and contri…
Religion, Catholic civil society and the struggle over notions of citizenship in the Spanish education system
The place of religion in public life has not diminished as predicted by modernization and secularization theories in the mid-1970s. Education is an especially sensitive issue in debates over moral and civic issues related to religious worldviews and institutions. Due to the death of the Spanish dictator in 1975, catholic sectors lost an important ally and were forced to reposition themselves in relation to the state. This paper examines how this …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · History of Education in Spain (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works)