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Use and Abuse in the Educational Apparatus during Franco's Regime in Spain: (1936-1951)

Terzioska, Jasmina

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2009, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures.
This dissertation investigates the use the abuse in the educational apparatus during the most crucial two decades of Franco's dictatorship in Spain (1936-1951). These years were the most difficult, including programs, curriculum, textbooks, students, and faculty, as it endured the most control. By analyzing approved textbooks, national newspaper articles, and illustrations of this specific period, this dissertation closely investigates the new implementations and changes in the educational system after the Spanish Civil War. It also explores how Spanish literature was taught, introduced and used, especially the Poema de Mio Cid. This medieval epic served as coursework for Franco's primary school in order to mimic the process of nation building. For the propagandistic use of the literary works, we highlight Eco's theory on text interpretation, which was developed in his book Lector in Fabula. For the ideological appropriation in the educational system, Franco was able to mimic what Louis Althusser calls reproduction of the productive forces outlines in Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. With this dissertation, I firstly aimed to profoundly study the manipulative evolution of the new educational apparatus after the Spanish Civil War; secondly, to analyze the use and the brainwashing of teaching of Spanish literature; and thirdly, to address the beneficial transmission of the interpretation of the Poema de Mio Cid in the educational apparatus.
Nicasio Urbina, PhD (Committee Chair)
Connie Scarborough, PhD (Committee Member)
Maria Moreno, PhD (Committee Member)
Carlos Gutierrez, PhD (Committee Member)
186 p.

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  • Terzioska, J. (2009). Use and Abuse in the Educational Apparatus during Franco's Regime in Spain: (1936-1951) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1260540406

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  • Terzioska, Jasmina. Use and Abuse in the Educational Apparatus during Franco's Regime in Spain: (1936-1951). 2009. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1260540406.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Terzioska, Jasmina. "Use and Abuse in the Educational Apparatus during Franco's Regime in Spain: (1936-1951)." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1260540406

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