Joaquim Prats gives a collection of half thousand history books edited in the 50s to CRAI of University of Barcelona

The rector of the University receives the ceding of the Joaquim Prats collection, in the presence of the Commissioner for Information and Documentation Systems, Carina Rey.
The rector of the University receives the ceding of the Joaquim Prats collection, in the presence of the Commissioner for Information and Documentation Systems, Carina Rey.
Academic
(19/09/2016)

The Learning and Resources Center (CRAI) of the University of Barcelona has a new book collection built  by five hundred history manuals for upper secondary studies, both for Spain and abroad, collected by Professor Joaquim Prats, from the Faculty of Education, over his research career. Prats has given the collection, which will be kept in the CRAI Library in Mundet campus to be available to all students and researchers willing to use them. Prats highlights that “the collection allows researchers of the field of manuals to analyze through books, the kinds of historic content of every moment, the methodology strategies proposed, the expected student levels, and historical tendencies that are now present in secondary education”.

The rector of the University receives the ceding of the Joaquim Prats collection, in the presence of the Commissioner for Information and Documentation Systems, Carina Rey.
The rector of the University receives the ceding of the Joaquim Prats collection, in the presence of the Commissioner for Information and Documentation Systems, Carina Rey.
Academic
19/09/2016

The Learning and Resources Center (CRAI) of the University of Barcelona has a new book collection built  by five hundred history manuals for upper secondary studies, both for Spain and abroad, collected by Professor Joaquim Prats, from the Faculty of Education, over his research career. Prats has given the collection, which will be kept in the CRAI Library in Mundet campus to be available to all students and researchers willing to use them. Prats highlights that “the collection allows researchers of the field of manuals to analyze through books, the kinds of historic content of every moment, the methodology strategies proposed, the expected student levels, and historical tendencies that are now present in secondary education”.

It is probably one of the most important collections in Spain, together with a similar one of UNED (in the Manes project) supported by the Ministry of Education, and with another one which is private but available to the public to consult. There are manuals mainly for universal history and Spain for the secondary and upper-secondary education stages. There are English, French and even Mexican, Ecuadorian, Brazilian and Argentinian ones.


In Teaching and Social Sciences, the study of manuals is a consolidated research line. This year Dr. Prats directed two theses working on the school manuals of history, and which continue with the research line that was started in previous thesis of the same department. “The school manuals are an essential source for education research. They are also a useful material to treat at the training lectures for teaching staff since they allow stressing the contrasts that happen in education” says Prats.