RT Journal Article
T1 Educating girls based on the biographies of illustrious women from Spanish history (1900–1960)
A1 Jiménez Pablo, Esther
A1 Muñoz García, Gemma María
AB This study analyses how different political regimes used the study of history to promote a patriotic identity among schoolchildren between 1900 and 1960 in Spain. Qualitative methods were employed to examine a sample of the reading material most widely used in Spanish schools throughout the aforementioned period. These readers contained the biographies of famous figures from Spanish history that primary and secondary school students had to study, memorise and, above all, imitate. The scarcity of historical female models as opposed to their male counterparts is striking, and hence the need during the Franco era (starting in 1939) to increase the number of biographies of illustrious women to impose a model for girls to follow. The two female figures that appear in all the biographical works, in which their domestic as opposed to public aspects were stressed, are Queen Isabella the Catholic and Saint Teresa of Jesus.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114379
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114379
LA eng
NO Jiménez Pablo, E., & Muñoz García, G. (2021). Educating girls based on the biographies of illustrious women from Spanish history (1900–1960). History of Education, 50(5), 704-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2021.1918269
NO This work was supported by two research projects: Conceptos metodológicos y métodos activos de aprendizaje para la mejora de las competencias docentes del profesorado (Grant Number: PGC2018-094491-B-C33) financed by the Spanish Science, Innovation and Universities Ministery and co-financed with FEDER funds from the European Union; and Observatorio de Historia: recursos didácticos para recuperar la memoria de individuos y sociedades invisibilizadas (n.103, 2020–21) financed by the Complutense University of Madrid.
NO Observatorio de Historia
NO Spanish Science, Innovation and Universities Ministery
NO European Commission
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 5 abr 2025