The Concept of the State in Textbooks

Analysis and Reinterpretation During the Spanish Transition to Democracy (1976-1986)

Bibliographic Data

ID8403798
AuthorsMariano Delgado (0000-0001-9817-9317, Universidad de La Laguna, corresponding author), Mariano González-Delgado, Manuel Ferraz Lorenzo (0000-0001-7664-4353, Universidad de La Laguna), Cristian Machado-Trujillo (0000-0002-3244-4242, Universidad de La Laguna)
Year2020
Volume68
Issue3
Pages331-347
Publication date2020-05-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071005.2019.1645810
OpenAlexW2965367007
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

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

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology) · Democracy · Dictatorship · Epistemology · Framing (construction) · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Reinterpretation · Social science · Sociology · Technocracy · Transition (genetics) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · History of Education in Spain · Law · Philosophy · Spanish History and Politics

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