Abstract

GARCIA, Bernat Sureda  and  RUBI, Francisca Comas. The Transition in Models of Leisure Education Toward the End of the Franco Dictatorship Through Photographic Sources: Summer Camps at Can Tàpera in the Balearic Islands. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2013, n.25, pp.159-176. ISSN 1645-7250.

The background context for this paper is a research study aimed at exploring the potential of photographs as a source in the history of education. 19th century positivist historiography provided a huge number of methodological tools for reviewing and analysing written sources. In contrast, techniques and theoretical principles have not been sufficiently developed to facilitate the use of photographs as historical sources. This paper has a dual purpose: to make headway in exploring resources and methods that can improve the way in which photographs are used as historical sources and to do so by studying a collection of photographs of summer camps. Our examination of photographs as a historical source is based on contributions in the field of different social sciences. The conclusion we reach is that photographs can provide information that is hard to obtain from other sources, but this information must be compared and contrasted with other evidence. In this case, the transition that occurred in the final years of the Franco dictatorship and early years of democracy is perceptible, with a shift from a very formal model of leisure education to other more flexible ones based on spontaneity.

Keywords : History of education; free time; historical sources.

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