Renovación pedagógica y nuevas gramáticas escolares

Resumo

The objective of the article is twofold: firstly, to carry out a brief historical-educational journey through the Spanish pedagogical renewal from the end of the 19th century to the end of Franco’s dictatorship and the beginning of the subsequent democracy; and secondly, to reflect from a sociological, political and pedagogical perspective, on the nature of the pedagogical renewal processes that are developing in Spain today. Some of the first results of the R+D+i Project funded by the Ministry of Scien-ce and Innovation in the 2019 call are shared. An essentially qualitative methodology was followed and which consisted of four linked phases: 1) bibliographic selection and discussion of this in thematic seminars; 2) the conduction of a contrast session in a discussion group between team members, academics and experts; 3) another discussion group was held with teaching professionals from centres that are currently carrying out pedagogical renewal projects; and 4) a final seminar was held in order to analyze the information collected in the previous phases. It is concluded, firstly, that there are certain continuities and discontinuities in the present with respect to the past; secondly, from the epistemological framework of pedagogical renewal, both the use of the concept of innovation and the reality it harbours, is commodified and devoid of a critical reading of the reality, ambition, content and trajectory, which confirms that part of the current educational change is merely adaptative and superficial.