Freedom of teaching in public opinion during the transition to democracy in Spain Authors Sara González Gómez Universitat de les Illes Balears José Luis Hernández Huerta Universidad de Valladolid Keywords: education, teaching freedom, public opinion, transition to democracy, daily press. Abstract The new political reality of Spain after the death of Francisco Franco forced to undertake changes that would affect the different social, cultural, economic and, of course, educational areas. After the first democratic elections were held in June 1977, work began on the drafting of the constitutional text. Within the field of education, one of the issues that would lead to greater parliamentary debate would be related to freedom of education. In this article, we intend to approach the broad concept of freedom of education from the perspective of public opinion, inserting it into the broader framework of the new political history and the history of ideas. One of the ways in which we can take the pulse to that debate around the freedom of teaching is consulting the daily press. This media will help us to trace the public debate generated, the positioning of different population groups, as well as the ideas propagated towards society on a particular issue that still today is subject to public debate. Specifically, this work takes as sources of research the newspapers El País and ABC and all those news, editorials, opinion articles, sections or fixed columns, interviews and reports whose main motive was freedom of education during the period of November 1977, date on which the first draft of the constitutional text is leaked in the journal Cuadernos para el diálogo, and on December 6, 1978, with the ratification in referendum of the Spanish Constitution.Key words: education, teaching freedom, public opinion, transition to democracy, daily press. Author Biography Sara González Gómez, Universitat de les Illes Balears 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.