Creando poder: la evolución de la autoridad docente en España

Abstract

This paper aims to address the subject of teacher authority as it has become a problem that has gone beyond educational barriers, to become a political issue. To do so, we analysed the evolution of teacher authority over the last two centuries, considered from its different portrayals in the legislation. As units of analysis, we have taken the education laws starting in 1857, with the Moyano Law, to this day, as well as the regulatory developments that have arisen in this regard at the regional level.The study of the regulations from a historical perspective will allow us not only to verify the role that has been given to the teacher at each moment in this time span, and how this has been collected in the regulations, but also the evolution of the concept of authority and the value granted to it at each different moment.