Ideas on the State in Education System Design: Spain, 1857-1931 Authors Isabel Grana Gil Universidad de Málaga Guadalupe Trigueros Gordillo Universidad de Sevilla Keywords: History of Education, History of Ideas, State, Education. Abstract This article looks at the topic of ideas in the area of history education to then focus on ideas about the State at a time in history when this concept was taking shape and beginning to claim major prominence in an area where, until then, it had little. In this sense, we will examine the concept of the State and the birth of the Liberal State. We have limited the timeframe from 1857 (when the first general education act was drafted) to 1931 (the start of the Second Republic in Spain). Furthermore, our study focusses on the ideas and approaches of politicians in terms of the State and its role in Education. In this vein, we attempt to provide an outline of differing opinions in reference to certain areas: the State as Educator/the Right to Education; the State as Administrator; Control/Freedom of Teaching, and the relations between Church and State. As we show, these changes significantly depend on their underlying ideology.Key words: History of Education, History of Ideas, State, Education. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Isabel Grana Gil, Universidad de Málaga Downloads PDF (Català) PDF PDF (Español) Issue No. 32 (2018): juliol-desembre Section Monographic theme License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.