Desde la madre-patria Española al estado de las autonomíasla idea de España en los manuales escolares (1900-2007)

Abstract

In this article we present a set of representative texts about the wayin which the idea of Spain was transmitted to the children in the textbooks publi-shed between 1900and 2007that were mainly used in Primary Education and in the subjects of Moral and Civic Education or Social Sciences. We have made the selec-tion of books according to the criteria of impact and to the diversity of nationalisticmodels that they were including. It is not our aim to draw general conclusions onthe topic, but we would like to point to the existence of nationalist discourses thatappeared in specific moments and that were the dominant discourse of this specifichistorical period, although it is possible that they coexist, even inside the same book,together with other discourses belonging to other very different epochs or tenden-cies. We illustrate this hypothesis with some examples taken from the chosen text-books. We also state the importance of making a parallel analysis of text and images,because the images carry symbolic representations of the Spanish national identity