The Early Modern Age in the Curriculum: Evolution and Historiographical Update

Abstract

This article objective is to detail the evolution of the contents on Early Modern Age in the Spanish curriculum comparing to the historiography’s trajectory in the XXI century. On one hand, a bibliometric analysis of the articles published in Web of Science (WoS) has been carried out to know which are the most addressed topics by researchers in recent years. On the other hand, the organization and nature of the contents on Early Modern History in the curriculum of Secondary Education since 1990, have been analyzed and compared with the introduction of topics and problems related to the current historiography. This curriculum has been questioned in diverse debates, as it’s also reflected in the curricular concretions carried out by various Autonomous Communities, and which contains different purposes on the Teaching of the Early Modern Age in Secondary School.