Abstract

SANCHIDRIAN-BLANCO, Carmen. The History of Pre-school Education from a Long-term Perspective. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2021, n.82, pp.301-322.  Epub Apr 05, 2022. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num82-10750.

This article presents a framework to facilitate, on one hand, comparative history studies of pre-school education, and, on the other hand, long-term studies focused on a country or region. Based on the systematic review of the history of early childhood education and taking into account stages that may be common across countries depending on different models of preschool education with different durations, three stages are identified, ranging from the creation of the first institutions to their universalisation. We review these three stages in the Spanish case. We do not pretend to offer a two-hundred-year Spanish preschool education history, but to indicate some significant milestones, debates, contributions or legal norms that allow a better understanding of that history to establish bridges for a comparative history. Both the path dependency theory and the use of models will allow one to obtain a global perspective of the process studied and to perceive the decisions that, taken at a given time, affects much of their future history. The use of this framework in long-term studies in other countries will make it possible to adjust the steps described and to demonstrate its effectiveness.

Keywords : Educational history; early childhood education; educational policy; comparative education; foreign countries.

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