Kira Mahamud-Angulo

• Ph.D. History of Education
• Lecturer at National University of Distance Education

El arte incluido en las páginas de los libros de texto del último tercio del siglo XX evidencia una predominancia del entorno social en detrimento de la naturaleza como espacio y entorno vital. La naturaleza representada es escasa y los contextos sociales predominan incluso en la selección de las obras de arte que se insertan en las páginas de los...

En esta investigación se analizan libros de textos de Ciencias naturales y sociales de las décadas de los 80 y 90, es decir, los producidos bajo el marco de la Ley General de Educación y Financiamiento de la Reforma Educativa (LGE) de 1970 y la Ley Orgánica de Ordenación General del Sistema Educativo (LOGSE) de 1990, en busca de la presencia del co...

The first objective of the work is to continue advancing on methodological issues related to textbook research, building on the basis of previous theoretical and empirical works. This purpose leads to the second objective: to highlight the relevance and need to study thoroughly, from a theoretical and critical perspective, the methodological aspect...

Kira Mahamud Angulo actua como Profesora en el Departamento de Historia de la Educación y Educación Comparada en la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Nacioanl de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Miembro del equipo investigador del Centro de Investigación MANES de la UNED, encargada de la conservación y el estudio de manuales escolares de los sig...

RP-SIG: Developments and Plans 2 Members’ News 4 New Members 5 Bernese Reading Primers From the 17th to the 19th Century 8 Latgalian Primers (1768-2018), Part 1 22 Sabine Reh, Denise Wilde (Hrsg.): Die Materialiät des Lesen- und Schrei- benlernens. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt 2016 (Review) 29 Linguistic Continuity in Group Labeling (Commentary) 31 G...

RP-SIG: developments and plans 2 Members’ news 3 New members 5 Germany: GEI library invites to participate in online survey 6 Latvia: Latvian Language Agency publishes Latgalian primer 6 Neue Fibel – Nowy Elementarzyk – Naujas Pibelis: investigating traces of a plurilingual family of primers in 19th century Prussia 7 ‘Research in curricula and sch...

O artigo aborda questões em torno dos contextos de transmissão e recepção dos conteúdos dos livros didáticos, tendo como objeto de estudo o caderno escolar. O recorte temporal delimita-se entre 1930 e 1950, no contexto espanhol. Considerando que a mensagem do livro se aproxima daquilo que se queria ensinar em um determinado momento histórico, o gra...

This special issue examines textbooks in countries undergoing political transition, change, and convulsion. The articles consider textbooks from countries shifting from one political regime to another, “at different speeds and with different priorities,”1 in the second half of the twentieth century. The articles raise a number of questions. What ha...

In this article we analyze knowledge about economics conveyed via primary school textbooks published during the late Franco dictatorship and the years of transition to democracy in Spain. Starting from the premise that the process of political socialization and identity construction is based partly on economic factors, we examine the evolution of t...

RP-SIG: developments and plans 2 Members’ news 3 A short history of Albanian media for elementary reading instruction (Basil Schader) 5 Primers in beginning reading instruction in Germany – historical devel- opment and current trends (Verena Stürmer) 9 Estonia: Kodavere Uavits: an author’s perspective 16 Germany – Russia: bibliotheca.gym presents...

The article presents a comprehensive review of the least studied areas of textbooks: The contexts of transmission and reception. The fact that textbooks are multi-contextualized has been evidenced by scholars. The consolidation of the research field and the need to evolve as a field of study has led to an effort in methodological refinement and to...

The present article proposes a report on two recent events devoted to textbook research. We refer to the Conference Education in periods of political transition, held in Berlanga de Duero (Soria, Spain) on 13th-15th April 2015, and the Workshop After the War - A New Beginning? A Comparative Examination of Reading Primers Published and Used in 1945...

Resumen: La investigación aborda el discurso educativo y la trasposición didáctica de las relaciones entre España y Estados Unidos (EEUU) desde la pérdida de la Colonias en 1898 hasta la Declaración Conjunta firmada en el año 2001. Metodológicamente, se analiza de manera diacrónica la forma en que EEUU se representa en documentos político-educativo...

RP-SIG: developments and plans 2 Members’ news 6 New members 7 Researching the history of the design of Greek reading primers 9 Bukvar’ narodnoho ruskoho jazyjka: a trilingual – or rather quadrilingual – primer, published around 1840 in Austrian Galicia 16 Joanna Wojdon: Świat elementarzy. Obraz rzeczywistości w podręcz- nikach do nauki czytania w...

This paper aims to highlight the prominence and relevance attached by the Franco dictatorial regime to emotions and sentiments in primary education textbooks. The authors of school textbooks employed a singular writing style, which enabled them to permeate the regime’s ideology within the primary education community and classroom. Overcoming the ce...

This article explores visions of war and peace in the education system during the Spanish transition to democracy. During those years, the Spanish state was faced with the challenge of leaving its authoritarian political past behind and forging a democratic civic culture. As the concepts of war and peace are inextricably linked to those of state an...

La investigación histórico-educativa actual responde también al giro afectivo de las ciencias incorporando las emociones y los sentimientos como categorías de análisis y variables a tener en cuenta en los procesos de enseñanza, aprendizaje, aculturación y socialización. La evidencia de que juegan un papel activo en los procesos cognitivos, evaluati...

Reading books were one of the favorite textual genres of the Franco Regime, used as a privileged vehicle for the transmission of knowledge, values and emotions. This article explores the evolution of their characteristics and contents during the late Franco dictatorship (tardofranquismo). During the first and second phases of Franco Regime, textboo...

November 2015: a workshop on primers 1945 in Europe 2 Members’ news 3 New members 4 ‘Modern time school practices of learning to read and write’ – a confe- rence report 5 ‘Primers, culture(s) of childhood and educational models in Europe (XVI- XXth centuries)’ – HECL special issue 7 Finland: New Finnish primers and their values 9 Latvia: Primers i...

This paper describes a study dealing with the reconstruction of the lives of two Spanish primary school teachers during the Franco dictatorship (1939–1975), in order to learn to what extent such a field of research can contribute to the history of education. Two family archives provide extraordinary and unique documentation to track down their pers...

The objective of this paper is to examine the portrayal of war in a variety of educational documents related to primary education during the years that followed the death of Franco, opening the door to a complex transition from a dictatorship to a democratic regime in Spain. Political-educational documents emerge as rich sources to examine the way...

RP-SIG developments and plans 2 Members’ News 2 New members 4 Austrian primers, 18th and 19th century 6 The primer in Estonia – persistent and variable 9 Italy: CfP “Nineteenth- and twentieth-century schools as a laboratory for the promotion of national identity and citizenship education” 13 Russia: Another successful year of research on the his...

RP-SIG developments and plans 2 New members 3 German primers, 1933-45 4 East German primers, 1945-1990 5 School exercise books in Brazil, 1943-2010 7 Czech Republic: Zdeňka Markovičová and her collection of primers 8 Germany: Exhibition “From primer to Smart Board” in Berlin 9 “Milchrahm instead of Obers!” – On the long-term fate of vocabulary-rel...

This paper examines the corpus of scientific knowledge transmitted to children through nineteen primary reading books from the Franco dictatorship (1939-1959). Focusing on the fields of biology, natural sciences and geography, the aim is to highlight the predominant scientific information provided, the nature of the ideological infiltration and the...

Emotions and feelings: historical and multidisciplinary coordinates in a field of study crucial for education sciences. Kira Mahamud, UNED (Spanish National Distance Learning University) The author establishes as objectives three converging ideas: calling into question the “novelty” of the topic by recalling and highlighting the range and relevance...

International Bibliography of Studies on Reading Primers and Basal Readers

School notebooks emerge as rich, varied, valid and necessary documentary sources of information to widen and complete studies materialized in three concomitant fields of investigation, which are: History of Childhood, History of Education ( and some of its subdued subjects, such as History of School, History of Overall Study, Educational Practice a...

This paper aims to examine the way school textbooks contributed to the construction of a particular national feminine and masculine identity during the Franco Dictatorship. The regime's National Catholic ideology impregnated and guided the life of the Spanish people and it deeply penetrated the school practices as well as the contents of school tex...