Presentation: Policy building and generation of knowledge in education.Alejandro Tiana Ferrer

Abstract

Revista de Educación reaches its 400th issue, 82 years after its creation and 71 years after the adoption of its current name. Indeed, the first issue of Revista Nacional de Educación, the predecessor of the current journal, appeared in January 1941. It was born in a post-war environment, with an explicitly Falangist militancy and a strong ideological and indoctrinating content at the service of “patriotic reconstruction”. Eleven years later, in January 1952, the first issue of Revista de Educación was published. This journal was a continuation of its predecessor but with a new name and a more open and expressly educational ideological orientation, although still with very different characteristics and approaches to those of today. After a long journey, it reached its 300th issue in 1993, which later led to the publication of a special issue in 1996 commemorating the first three hundred issues. In its presentation, as the director of the journal between 1989 and 1996, I wrote some brief historical notes on the journal's trajectory over those 52 years, to which I refer interested readers (Tiana, 1996).