La instrucción en las posesiones españolas de Ultramar 1838-1898

Abstract

The Spanish educational politics in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines from 1838 o 1898 had a specific character according to the administrative situation of these territories. But in any way the curriculum established was discriminatory with regard to the metropolis. In Cuba, the influence of creóle oligarchy was reflected on the contents of some geographical and historical programs, which show a different image of the past from that in Spain. In the Philippines the importance of the religious orders controbuted to gine a peculiar character to the teaching plans for native people.