Social and Education History

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HSE Editors — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

School segregation and its impact on the academic performance of primary school students in Spain.

Leopoldo Cabrera, Daniel Bianchi — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

This article studies the effects of social inequality on the schooling of pupils in primary education students by schools and its impact on unequal educational achievement in external assessment tests. The current reality, and the past, show adverse effects on the academic performance of students from socio-economically and culturally disadvantaged backgrounds, who are more likely to be enrolled in schools segregated by social composition. The democratization of education with full primary schooling in Spain for decades has not resolved the randomness of students’ outcomes that would be expected in schooling processes guided by the principle of equal opportunities. The school social composition variable, created with a socio-economic and cultural status index, shows significant effects on the mathematics outcomes of primary school students, although schools with the same social class composition show significant variability between them, ensuring that schools can change academic outcomes, regardless of their characterization by the socioeconomic backgrounds of their student body. Data comes from the TIMSS 2019 Report, published by the IEA in December 2020.

School textbooks on history: a case of representing the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet era and the period of independence of Kazakhstan

Arstan Satanov, Ayagan Burkitbay G. — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The article analyzes Soviet and modern Kazakhstani school textbooks to cover the Great Patriotic War's history using the "Opening Up the Textbook" method. The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of the textbooks of the Soviet era and the current textbooks to cover the events of military history in them. Particular attention is paid to the presentation of the history of the Great Patriotic War. Not only were different textbooks compared, but also the description of the history of the war in them. The study identifies standard and distinctive features and analyzes the specifics of the presentation of the main points of the war in the textbooks.

Rural teachers against school concentrations: the origin of the Rural School Zones

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Nowadays, the idea that Rural School benefits students and the community is commonly shared. However, historically it has not always been like that. During the Francoism, its extinction came to seek, especially with the General Education Law. In this context, several rural teachers, who opposed school concentrations and sought alternatives, were organized at the end of the 70s and early 80s through their participation in the Rural School Workshops. This article, through interviews with rural teachers who played a primordial role in these days, seeks to know the role of rural educators in the processes of change during the democratic transition. The results show that these teachers were those who questioned the educational policies of the time and those who posed the rural school model that is still existing today.

The history of education through specialised journals: themes, scientific production and bibliometrics (1967-2022)

Jacobo Roda-Segarra, Andrés Payà Rico, José Luis Hernández Huerta — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Over the last three decades there has been a significant increase in the number of research studies in the field of History of Education. This, while favouring internationalisation and the creation of transnational research networks, also increases the complexity of the overall understanding of the discipline. Due to these circumstances, together with the small number of studies on the subject, the present research carries out a bibliometric analysis of 11 internationally relevant journals from 1967 to the present day. We have analysed the evolution of production over the years, citations, authors and collaborations, countries of affiliation, institutions and collaborations, and languages. The gender representation of the most productive authors has also been studied. In addition, an analysis of the most frequent keyword combinations has been carried out, together with the evolution of the most researched topics over the last decade. The results show a turning point in production from 2006 onwards, with significant growth, as well as low rates of collaboration between authors and countries. They also show the relevance in the last decade of historical-educational research by country and period, with particular emphasis on the history of contemporary education.