La prensa como fuente para el estudio de la historia de la educación en España durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y la Restauración

Abstract

This article reflects on the use of hemerography as a source for the study of the history of education in Spain during the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, also covering the Restoration period, both from a global point of view and in relation to certain specific didactics (humanistic, scientific, social, and artistic). In the first place, the interest of this period is exposed in the historical evolution of Spanish education and its relationship with periodicals to subsequently analyse their informative possibilities, distinguishing generalist from specialized periodicals. In addition, this article emphasizes the need to address the use of hemerography as a source for research from interdisciplinarity, in its epistemological and methodological aspects as well as those related to the training of historians and / or pedagogues. Likewise, after exposing the current situation of the digital repositories of the historical press and the gradual increase of their collections, as well as the ease in accessing the periodical publications promoted by the new technologies, a series of procedural guidelines in relation to the aforementioned period are considered. These form a methodological proposal oriented to the adequate use of historical hemerography as a source that allows us to profit from its informative possibilities, thus contributing new data that propitiate a better approach to the history of Spanish education.