Public image and projection of the education of a prince during Franco’s regime (1948-1954) Authors Xavier Motilla Salas Universitat de les Illes Balears (Espanya) Sara González Gómez Universitat de les Illes Balears (Espanya) Keywords: Secondary education, élite, photography, Francoism. Abstract The study of the educational training received by the élite is part of a thematic line that arouses researchers’ interest. The school and educational formation of future country’s leaders, with their own distinctive signs, is an attractive topic which is still needed of in-depth analysis. In this article we intend to approach and analyze a specific stage of the formation of Prince Juan Carlos during Franco’s regime, which corresponds to his first years of secondary and high school education in the Spanish State when returning from exile, that is from 1948 to 1954. Specifically, we will focus on the image and public projection that was transmitted iconographically from Franco’s dictatorship of this formative period of the prince, through the analysis of the photographic collection which is preserved in the EFE Agency. Methodologically, we try to perform an analysis of the sources through an image analysis, references to the historical context and interpretation of the data. The reader will find two sections: the first one is devoted to the review, succinctly, of the general panorama of secondary education in Spain and its legislation during the period when Prince Juan Carlos studied; the second focuses on the study of the iconography of secondary education by the prince, through the analysis of a sample of photographs belonging to the photographic library of the EFE Agency.Keywords: Secondary education, élite, photography, Francoism. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF (Español) PDF Published 2020-02-07 Issue No. 35 (2020): gener-juny 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.