TEACHING HISTORY TO LEGITIMIZE A REGIME: SPEECHES IN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS AT THE FIRST MOMENTS OF FRANCOISM (1938-1953)

Abstract

This article is an approach to the role played by the speeches of history in high school as legitimator of the Franco regime. Among other subjects, history has the primary function of transmitting and instilling the value system prevailing in each political regime, by exposing an ideology that seeks to build a future paradigm, legitimized from a past that explains the present we live. These values ​​were evident in textbooks and is now using them, among other ways, as we know the discourse about the past that Francoism spread at school and, from here, to the rest of society. It also introduces the importance of the school as an agent of socialization in the early years of life of individuals, when basic sociopolitical behavior patterns and guidelines are strengthened.