El Nuevo Libro Segundo de la Junta Superior de Educación de Navarra. Un texto casi centenario

Abstract

The study of school manuals, the text books schoolchildren actually used, is gaining evermore importance in the History of Education, in the belief that these can be considered true indicators and a faithful reflection of what went on in classrooms on a day-to-day basis. More than major education laws, the curricula of each period or ministerial policy, the texts explain what information was transmitted to students when, with what methodology, in what depth...
A new appraisal can be made based on the supposition that these manuals are not only didactic-pedagogical tools, but also a reflection of ideology, politics and even economics. The social situation left its mark on students by creating manuals in its own image...