The MANES Research Center organizes frequent thematic exhibits of school textbooks. These coincide with the Science Weeks of the Comunidad de Madrid; The Day of the Book; International Women’s Day; and other commemorative occasions.
Exhibit: The teaching of Science in school textbooks.
II Science Week of the Madrid Region. Humanities Building, UNED. November 2002.
This exhibit is associated with the following radio program, broadcast on Radio 3 on 10 November 2002.
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Exhibit: Our first letters: exhibit of school textbooks.
On the occasion of Book Day. Central Library of the UNED. April 2004.
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Exhibit: El Quijote in the school
Central Library of the UNED. Exhibition organized on the occasion of the IV Centenary of the first edition of «El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha», by Miguel de Cervantes. Organized by Ana María Badanelli Rubio. From 1 to 30 June 2005.
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Exhibit: El Quijote in the classroom.
Giner de los Ríos Foundation - Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Madrid). Exhibit organized on the occasion of the IV Centenary of the first edition of El Quijote, sponsored by the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and the Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos. Curators of the exhibit: Gabriela Ossenbach Sauter and Carmen Rodríguez Guerrero. October-November 2005.
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Exhibit: Darwinism in Natural Science school textbooks in the last third of the 19th century in Spain.
VI Science Week of the Madrid Region. Central library of the UNED. Organized by Margarita Hernández Laille. From 6 to 19 November 2006.
- This exhibit is complemented by the following related activities:
“Presentation of the book Darwinism and textbooks in Spain and England in the 19th. Century“
“Darwinism in textbooks from the end of the 19th. Century”: program aired on Channel 2 of TVE, 9 February 2007.
“Darwin at the school desk”: Article in the newspaper El País, by Carmen Morán. 6 November 2006
“And Darwin… went to school”: Article in the newspaper El Mundo, by Alfredo Merino. 12 November 2006.
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Exhibit: School readings for girls.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day. Central Library of the UNED. Organized by Kira Mahamud Angulo. March-April 2007.
- This exhibit is complemented with the following related activities:
“A study of emotional indoctrination in school textbooks.”: Interview with Kira Mahamud about her work, awarded the Elisa Pérez Vera Prize. March 2007.
“IX Edición Premio Elisa Pérez Vera”: Presentation of the Elisa Pérez Vera Prize, 9th Edition, to the researcher Kira Mahamud for her work titled: “Madres para la patria por la gracia de Dios” (Mothers for the Homeland, by the Grace of God).
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Exhibit: Learning to think in Spanish. Secondary school textbooks, 1845-1939.
Affiliated center of the UNED, Escuelas Pías, Madrid. Organized by Gabriela Ossenbach Sauter, Miguel Somoza Rodríguez, José María González Clouté and Margarita Hernández Laille. From 8 – 25 October 2007.
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Exhibit: Learning to think in Spanish. Secondary school textbooks, 1845-1939.
IES (Public Secondary School) Federico García Bernalt, Salamanca. Organized by Gabriela Ossenbach Sauter, Miguel Somoza Rodríguez, José María González Clouté and Margarita Hernández Laille. With the collaboration of Cecilia Durán Camacho and Ana María Badanelli Rubio; CEINCE (Berlanga de Duero, Soria) and of the IES “Federico García Bernalt”. 15 February 2008.
- This exhibit is complemented with the following related activities:
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Exhibit: Latin American School Textbooks in the MANES Collection.
VIII Science Week of the Madrid Region, Central Library of the UNED. From 10 to 23 November 2008. Exhibit organized by Gabriela Ossenbach and Cecilia Milito.
- This exhibit is complemented with the following related activity:
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Radio program on the participation of the MANES Research Center in Science Week and on the exhibit of Latin American textbooks.
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Exhibit: Infancy, Literature and the Exile of 39. Books from the collection of Ana Pelegrín.
Central Library of the UNED. Exhibit commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Republican exile, in collaboration with the UNED Center for the Study of Migrations and Exile. Organized by Alicia Alted, María García Alonso and Gabriela Ossenbach. From 28 April to 30 June 2009.
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Exhibit: Chemistry: Our life, our future.
Central Library of the UNED. Exhibit held on the occasion of the International Year of Chemistry, 2011, from 28 March to 15 April 2011. The exhibit included Chemistry books from the UNED Central Library’s textbook collection (Colección MANES) as well as scientific material from the Chemistry laboratories of the UNED Science Faculty.
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Exhibit: Visions of nuclear energy in school textbooks. 100 years since the discovery of the atomic nucleus (1911-2011).
Central Library of the UNED. Exhibit organized by José María González Clouté. From 7 – 20 November 2011. The exhibit was subsequently relocated to the public secondary school Francisco Salinas, in Salamanca. 20 to 27 February 2012.
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Poster from Francisco Salinas Secondary School
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Exhibit: School textbooks and notebooks from Francoism.
Activity carried out in the Joaquín Costa School of Madrid on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Joaquín Costa and as part of a program of encounters in the school between students from the post-war generation and today’s generation. This included a visit from former students from the 1940s and recollections of the post-war Francoist school. 23-27 May 2011.
“School memory and culture across generations”: Television Program, Channel UNED I+D. 17 June 2011 and 11 November 2011.
SERIES “School memory and the life stories of teachers under Franco”.
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Exhibit: #UNEDianas: Past and present of education in Spain.
Central Library of the UNED. Exhibit organized on the occasion of International Women’s Day by the Central Library, the Office for Equality and the UNED Center for Gender Studies. Among the collaborators was Kira Mahamud, member of the MANES Research Center. A retrospective of Spanish education was shown along with an analysis of UNED students from the university’s founding in 1972. Raquel Osborne was the scientific curator of the exhibit while the technical curatorship was carried out by the Cultural Activities Commission of the UNED Library. From 7 March to 7 April 7 2014.
Exhibit: How we learned to read.
Casa del Lector / Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation, Madrid. This exhibit brought together the history of the teaching of reading in the last 500 years, showing us how we have learned to read and how we have become reading subjects. The exhibit was designed with the collaboration of Agustín Escolano, from the Centro Internacional de la Cultura Escolar (CEINCE), Antonio Castillo Gómez and Verónica Sierra Blas, from the Research Group «Lectura, Escritura, Alfabetización» (“Reading, Writing, Literacy”) of the University of Alcalá, and with members of the MANES Research Center Miguel Somoza and Kira Mahamud. From October 2014 to January 2015.
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Exhibit on the History of the School Center Giner de los Rios.
Second floor of the Education Faculty of the UNED. Exhibit about the history of the Giner de los Ríos School Center (later renamed Colegio Andrés Manjón). This exhibit was first inaugurated in November 2015 as part of a series of activities organized by the UNED Center for Studies on Migrations and Exile (CEME) and to commemorate the centenary of the death of the founder of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Francisco Giner de los Ríos. With the closing of the Centro de Zona Giner de los Ríos, the exhibit was moved to the Education Faculty of the UNED. Part of the exhibition will remain on permanent display at the Education Faculty, while the other part was only exhibited during the month of October 2016.
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