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Pacheco-Costa, Alejandra – History of Education, 2020
During the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, a serious concern regarding the academic credentials of musicians arose in Spain. This movement was led by Francisco Barbieri and Felipe Pedrell. Drawing on Krausism and Regenerationism, Pedrell defined the cultural background required by true artists, following…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Educational History, Foreign Countries
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Winzer, Margaret; Mazurek, Kas – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
The concepts, premises, and promises of inclusive schooling as a global movement crystallized at UNESCO's 1994 World Conference on Special Needs Education in Salamanca. Despite their marked influence over the past 25 years, the Salamanca documents also ushered in a set of continuing challenges. Using the documents as a departure point, this paper…
Descriptors: Special Education, Inclusion, Educational History, Educational Change
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Mitterle, Alexander – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
Today, the term 'global' has become a pervasive description of universities that aim to alleviate their importance and reach. The global looks inherently big. By relating to a spherical shape it attributes size in two distinct ways: it signifies the comprehensive and extensive reach of a theme or issue as well as the spherical centrality of an…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Universities, Educational History, Institutional Characteristics
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Eskelson, Tyrel C. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
The purpose of the paper is to develop the theory that structural or procedural changes in institutions precede changes in education in a society. It examines the development of pre-modern institutions in Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries and the influences this had on growth in literacy rates within these states. Literacy rates in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Development, Trend Analysis
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Andoni Arguiñano; Inaki Karrera; Maitane Basasoro; Garazi Ormazabal--Arizkorreta – Cogent Education, 2024
This article analyses the different guidelines that have allowed a school to transform its educational project and pedagogical organization in order to adapt to the needs and requirements of a society in constant evolution. To this end, document analysis, participant observation and four focus groups have been carried out with various social…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational History, Instructional Innovation, Foreign Countries
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González-Delgado, Mariano; Lorenzo, Manuel Ferraz; Machado-Trujillo, Cristian – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
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.…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Textbooks, Democracy, Educational History
Lefty, Lauren, Ed.; Fraser, James W., Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
Many countries confront surprisingly similar challenges in preparing K-12 educators for success, while national contexts also make for surprising differences. In "Teaching the World's Teachers," education historians Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser and their contributors make a convincing case for approaching these shared challenges from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Cultural Differences
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Lapot, Miroslaw – Journal of Jewish Education, 2020
This article investigates the genesis of a new model of religious education in the history of Jews using as an example Jews in Galicia during its autonomous period (1867-1918). At that time, it became necessary to organize instruction in Mosaic religion in public schools. No relevant experience had been previously acquired, and the vast majority…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Religious Education, Jews, Judaism
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Sánchez-Jiménez, Encarna – Pedagogical Research, 2020
A key issue in the institutionalisation of Mathematics' Education and in the professionalisation of teachers educators consists in characterizing the type of knowledge involved in the formation of primary school teachers of mathematics (Valente, 2017). The aim of this article is to explain how "knowledge to teach" and "knowledge for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs
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Sánchez-Agustí, María; Miguel-Revilla, Diego – Journal of Social Science Education, 2020
Purpose: The aim of this country report is to offer an overview of civic and citizenship education in Spain. Approach: The report analyses the Spanish curriculum and the current legislative framework, examining the way social and civic competences are integrated in both primary and secondary education. Additionally, the paper also examines the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Legislation, Teaching Methods, Political Attitudes
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González-Delgado, Mariano; Ferraz-Lorenzo, Manuel – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2018
This article explains the approach to mass consumption developed in social studies textbooks in the early years of the transition to democracy in Spain. It begins by examining the way in which school textbooks represented consumer society and mass media in the late 1970s. This is followed by an in-depth explanation of the reasons that led the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Social Studies, Consumer Economics
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Gómez, Fco. Javier Pericacho; Galán-Casado, Diego – History of Education, 2022
This article's purpose is to address a hitherto unexplored topic in the history of education: the story of the "Cátedras Ambulantes," officially referred to as "Misiones Pedagógicas" during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy (1966-1977). The study is based on a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Authoritarianism, Social Change, News Reporting
Polenghi, Simonetta, Ed.; Németh, András, Ed.; Kasper, Tomáš, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2021
The public dimension of the body became paramount in the first half of the 20th century, when the image of the modern man, with his virile stereotypes, became a cliché, in strict connection with nation building first and totalitarian ideologies later. Yet, different cultural and educational trends advocated for life reform and liberation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Human Body, Physical Education
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Maria Menegaki – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper addresses aspects of alternative proposals taking place in the public education system, based on an anthropological, ethnographic, comparative study of alternative schools and educational projects in Catalonia. More specifically, it first explores educational change in Catalonia through time and on the present, with a special focus on…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Change, Cultural Differences, School Choice
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Martínez-Morales, Ignacio; Marhuenda-Fluixá, Fernando – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
In this study, we argue that vocational education and training in Spain have increased their status and value over the past four decades at a steady and consistent pace. This pace has been perhaps too slow for the wishes of some but has been properly grounded on a wide consensus among all involved stakeholders (companies, union representatives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Development, Educational History
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