Beyond the Academy: Social and civic engagement of the Spanish historians of education

Authors

  • Francisca Comas Rubí Universitat de les Illes Balears, GEDHE-IRIE
  • María del Mar del Pozo Andrés Universitat d’Alcalá de Henares

  • DOI: 10.2436/20.3009.01.326

Keywords:

historical documentaries, historians of education, social commitment, public history of education

Abstract

Documentaries on the history of education are dissemination tools aimed at the general public, produced outside the academic sphere but with the possibility of participation by historians of education. In the framework of a recent project on the Public History of education, we have created an inventory of documentaries focusing on education and childhood in pre-Franco Spain. From this inventory, based on criteria detailed in this article, we have initiated several lines of study. One of them is the analysis of the role of historians in these products. The article presents the first results of this research: out of 77 catalogued documentaries, 37 include the participation of academic historians of education as expert witnesses. An update of the entire inventory is provided, together with a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the presence of these so-called academic historians of education, all of them from Spanish state universities. Finally, it reflects on the civic and social commitment that has motivated their involvement in the dissemination of educational history.

Supporting Agencies
Article developed in the framework of «Historia pública de la educación en España (1970-2020). Percepción social, memoria colectiva y construcción de imaginarios sobre los docentes y sus prácticas» funded by: PID2020-113677GB-I00 / MICIU / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 and the Programa de Foment de la Recerca i la Innovació de la Universitat de les Illes Balears 2024-2026 through GEDHE/IRIE.

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Published

2025-04-02

Issue

No. 45 (2025): gener-juny: Presència pública i compromís social de la història de l'educació. Passat, present i futur

Section

Monographic theme

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