Pensar a las mujeres en la historia y enseñar su historia en las aulas: estado de la cuestión y retos de future

Abstract

This paper focuses on women's history and the way in which it is taught. Women historical agency is analyzed in the first part of this article from a historiographical perspective, by highlighting the importance paid by different historiographical schools of thought to women's role in history from the nineteenth century to nowadays, and the need of acknowledgement of women history as a research field by its own. On other hand, the need of this acknowledgement and the current researches carried out by academic historians are in contrast with the presence of women's history in Secondary Education history contents. Throughout an analysis of educational laws and textbooks in Spain emerge the lack of women's role as historical agents. The consequences are important in the extent to which is impossible to reach a critical thinking about historical agency and it reinforces the image of inequality of gender. The paper concludes with some educational proposals that aim to avoid such situation.