Exhibits

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.

 


 

Exhibition “Individual and Nature in Natural Science textbooks in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries”

 

Exhibition designed within the framework of the project “Individual, nature and society: study of their relationships and representations in school textbooks in Spain and Portugal in the last third of the 20th century” (Reference PID2020-115282GA-I00 Proyectos I+D 2020, of the Ministry of Science and Innovation).
The exhibition is a small illustrative sample of the Natural Sciences textbooks published in Spain for the transmission of natural-scientific knowledge. The aim of the exhibition is threefold: to show the evolution of the aesthetics and design of the textbooks over the centuries; to show how the names of the school discipline changed in the curricula and textbooks; and to demonstrate the transition from a scientific, descriptive teaching, disconnected from the human being, to a more ecological approach of connection and belonging of the individual to his or her natural environment.
The exhibition was presented for the first time at VENTUCIENCIA, the 1st Science Fair in Venturada (Madrid), which was held on 5, 6 and 7 May 2023.

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Exhibition at the Science and Innovation Week

 

On the occasion of the Science and Innovation Week of the Region of Madrid, held between 7 and 17 November 2023, the exhibition moved to the Faculty of Education of the UNED.
The exhibition, which has been curated by Kira Mahamud and Yovana Hernández-Laina, has been designed with manuals from the MANES collection of the UNED Central Library.

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Exhibition “FLORA, or the education of a girl in traditional society”

 

Central Library of UNED, from 28 September to 21 October 2022

 

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This exhibition was an initiative of the MANES Research Centre and the International Centre for School Culture (CEINCE) of Berlanga de Duero (Soria), to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of UNED and the 30th anniversary of the creation of the MANES Centre. The Cultural Activities Commission of the Library and the General Archive of the UNED, as well as the Faculty of Education, are collaborating in the organisation.

The exhibition explores and promotes a portrayal of the education of women in traditional society, an image based on differentiation and exclusion, categories and values that dominated the education of women in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Textbooks and school material in which the education of women in the past has been reflected were displayed, with the aim of contrasting the experiences of the past with the expectations of inclusion that the new gender relations postulate.
The material on display comes from the MANES Fund of UNED Library, the MANES Historical Fund kept in the General Archive of UNED, and the CEINCE.
The exhibition was inaugurated on 28 September 2022, at 11:00 a.m., in the UNED Library (Paseo Senda del Rey, 5), followed by a round table on the theme “School memory of women in Franco’s regime“. Four women took part in this round table, which was held at 12:00 p.m. in the Faculty of Law of UNED, sharing their experiences in their schools for girls in the 60s and 70s of the last century.

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This exhibition was also adapted to the display space of the Public Library of Alcañiz (Teruel) , with materials from the collections of the Public Library and the Municipal Archive of Alcañiz, as well as from several private collections and schools in the Lower Aragon region.

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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.

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“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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  • 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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“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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  • 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: Our first letters: exhibit of school textbooks.

On the occasion of Book Day. Central Library of the UNED. April 2004.

 

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This exhibit is associated with the following radio program, broadcast on Radio 3 on 10 November 2002.

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