YOVANA HERNÁNDEZ-LAINA

My research career is defined by three core elements: specialisation in the field of textbook studies (research with and on school textbooks as primary sources), interdisciplinarity, and the international dimension of research. My principal contribution to historical-educational studies based on school textbooks lies in the incorporation of the economic sphere through the concept of economic culture, linking it to processes of political socialisation and to analytical categories such as identity, ideology, language, and childhood. My research therefore draws on the History of Education, Sociology, Economics, and Political Science. The international dimension of my work is evidenced by publications in English, including one in the most prestigious journal in the field of the History of Education, as well as by my regular participation in international conferences and seminars. Among these, I particularly highlight the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) and the Ibero-American Congress on the History of Latin American Education (CIHELA), which have enabled me to establish both international and national research networks. I have been a member of the MANES Research Centre since 2014, a consolidated research group, and have participated in three National R&D&I Research Projects funded under the National Plan by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Ministry of Science and Innovation, where I have also worked in the area of knowledge transfer. In the field of teaching, I highlight my experience at undergraduate and master’s level (Early Childhood Education, Social Education, and Pedagogy). I also consider particularly relevant my experience in designing and coordinating a new course within the recently implemented Degree in Early Childhood Education at the UNED, as well as coordinating the course textbook and authoring one of its chapters. My management experience at the International Centre for School Culture (CEINCE) over a five-year period has been further strengthened through academic management roles at the UNED, including participation in several departmental committees and my position as Academic Secretary of the Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Memory and Critique of Education. My teaching and research training has been progressively enriched through professional development courses and national and international research stays, consolidating an academic trajectory that began with a Diploma in Primary Education Teaching and a Bachelor’s Degree in Pedagogy, continued with the Master’s Degree in Memory and Critique of Education, and culminated in my PhD (awarded with sobresaliente cum laude and Extraordinary Doctoral Award). I am currently supervising two ongoing doctoral theses and am a member of the teaching innovation group Investigaciones en el territorio: TFG y TFM con proyección en el entorno social (INTFGES), as well as the teaching innovation project Service-learning in school libraries. With regard to knowledge transfer, I have collaborated in the UNED–SM Foundation university–industry Chair for the promotion of school libraries, through the organisation of and participation in various thematic workshops on school libraries. In recent years, this field has also become one of my main lines of research and professional activity.