Culture and education in the Iberian Empires: research, theory, experience

Abstract

This article presents the Research Group on Culture and Education in the Iberian Empires (CEIbero) and comments Its historiographical production in the last decade, characterizing the group, in its scholar events and publications as a place for the discussion of the political and cultural environment of the Old Iberian regime, particularly in what reffers to the context of educational reforms carried out under the influence of the Enlightenment. This perspective is focused on a more comprehensive the concept of education, in addition to the hegemonic notion that sees education on in schools, organizing investigations around three lines of research: Administration, educational instruction; Written culture and cultural and educational practices; Cultural institutions and practices and education. In this sense, the research conducted by the members of the Group approach the formation of the administrative staff of Iberian Empires, the several educational projects of these Empires and their relationship with economic and professional activities, such as relationships between Illustration and written culture, cultural practices as mediators of sociability and as cultural and educational institutions, their components and their actions.