Another View on Education: Educational Policy of the Second Republic of Spain Seen from Pictorial Humour in Satirical and Conservative Press

• Autores: José Francisco Jiménez Trujillo
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 36, Nº. 1, 2000 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The challenge of the visual in the history of education), págs. 426-446
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of the Second Republic in Spain to create just one kind of school, free and secular, faced the most radical opposition in the conservative press of the country. The paper war, opened by the controversial section 26 of the new Constitution, found a peculiar way to express itself in the pictorial humour, that strengthened ideological stereotypes and raised antirepublican feelings, while discrediting the main goal of a regime called pedagogic republic by some scholars.

    The importance of these daily newspapers in the creation of trends of opinion cannot be overestimated. In my paper I to study the effectiveness of the message and the power of these conservative cartoons in the atack to the new progressive educational policy. The power of these caricatures deserves to be investigated as part of a history of mentalities. At the time the comic strip was a political weapon. Today it can be a document of importance for the historian