From schoolteachers to EGB teachers: Educational traditions and pedagogical modernisation. The case of the Canary Islands in the Spanish context Authors Teresa González Pérez Universidad de La Laguna Keywords: Education, dictatorship, education, 1971 curriculum, pedagogic renovation, political transition. Abstract In Spain, during the final stage of the Franco dictatorship, a new professional profile for teaching, embodied in the 1971 curriculum, diversified into a programme of specialised cultural and educational training and substantially changed the initial teaching model. The transformation of Teacher Training Colleges into university centres, in accordance with the General Education Act (1970) constituted a major advance in the training of schoolteachers, thereafter called General Basic Education (EGB) Teachers. Professional identity along with their educational commitments played a key role as for pedagogic renovation. The aim of this paper is to study the initial training as well change initiatives promoted by the teaching staff in the Canary Islands until the Spanish transition to democracy.KEYWORDS: Education, dictatorship, education, 1971 curriculum, pedagogic renovation, political transition. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF PDF (Español) Issue No. 23 (2014): gener-juny Section Assays and researches 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.