History of Education in the Iberian Peninsula (2014-2019). Societies, Journals and Conferences in Spain and Portugal. L'histoire de l'éducation dans la péninsule ibérique (2014-2019): associations savantes, revues et colloques en France et en Espagne

Abstract

[eng] The aim of this article is to delve into the networks for communicating the advances made in History of Education and the arenas for communication, representation and social construction of academic communities. More specifically, three tools are investigated: specialist journals, academic societies and conferences organised by those societies in the area of History of Education. The study centres on the cases of Spain and Portugal, between 2014 and 2019. Our focus is on aspects relating to the means and methods employed by the academic community in weaving together their shared existences, the spaces set up (conferences, symposiums and/or talks) for participation and collective construction of the work, transnational collaborations and influences, the avenues of academic interest expressed at academic conferences and in monographs in periodicals,as well as the channels for academic communication (journals and newsletters) developed in Spain and Portugal. We begin with an overview of the process whereby academic communities of historians of education in Spain and Portugal were established and came together, the main forums in which these academics congregated, and a number of methods of contact and collaboration between them and with other, larger bodies, such as the ISCHE, the Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de História da Educação (COLUBHE) and the Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana (CIHELA). Subsequently, we analyse the specialist journals published in that geographical region (eight in total), and the results - published in the form of proceedings or books - of the events organised directly by the academic societies. The article closes with a number of conclusions and critical reflections. This work, which is part of the activity of the Connecting History of Education Working Group, is intended to contribute to the efforts made over the past several years by the international community of historians of education to construct a global map of the state of the art in History of Education.