Educational Historiography of the Franco Regime: Analysis and Critical Review

Over the last decade, historico-educational studies of the Franco regime in Spain have undergone a remarkable development, even though the first studies of interest date back to the 1980s and even earlier. In consequence, we shall take these as our starting point although we shall, on occasion, refer to earlier studies, either for their relevance or for the scientific prestige of their authors. A thematic criterion has been preferred to a chronological one, after referring to certain studies of a general historiographic nature, essential for a first approximation to the theme. "Ideology and Education" "Educational Policy" and "New Themes" are the blocks into which the monographical studies have been distributed. This is, nevertheless, a methodological and flexible division, it being obvious that there can be no impermeable barriers between the analytic perspectives of a single question - in our case, that of education - and therefore some of them could well fit in two or even all three of the sections.