Originality, development and destruction of progressive historiography in Spanish primary education (1931-1939)

Abstract

The proclamation of the Second Republic implied important reforms in the field of education in Spain. But the briefness of the Republican experience prevented the complete overcoming of the traditional educational model. Certainly, there was an increase in the number of textbooks affiliated to progressive historiography, in a phenomenon violently blocked by war and dictatorship. In this article the progressive textbooks of Eladio García Martínez and Modesto Medina Bravo, and that of Daniel González Linacero, are analyzed with the aim of defining their relationship with previous works and intellectuals, pointing out the continuities and novelties embodied in their pages and giving prestige to the didactic and pedagogical work of its authors in front of the cultural setback that the Francoism brought about.