History Remnants of the SE in Spain: from the Reproduction Role to the Commitment with Social Transformation

Abstract

The Sociology of Education (hereinafter SE) in Spain is in a great moment. In a very short period of time it has gone from being unknown by global Sociology and not valued at all by the be international SE to be a key reference for both and cited by several of their main authors. In the same period, it has gone from not having generated any real improvement in our schools to having sociologists of many of our universities making important contributions to overcome school failure and exclusion. Sociologists of twenty of our universities have decided to feed this accelerated progression of the scientific and ethical level of our discipline by recovering its history. It is important that they have decided to take on this task before the written documents and personal testimonies disappear which correct the basic errors of the little writings done until the moment on this issue. For this study we have conducted personal and collective interviews with 33 people protagonists of the facts here explained. In addition we have analyzed all the documentation available on Internet and documentation facilitated by the same interviewees. This article intends to be a compilation of all these analysis in an effort to narrate an unfinished, exciting and full of challenges story.