Pedagogy and literary education in children’s press: the newspaper El mundo de los niños (1887-1891)

Abstract

This paper discusses the children’s newspaper El mundo de los niños (Madrid, 1887-1891) from an educational and literary point of view. Its educational orientation concerning systems that were present during that period is studied. It also confronts the theoretic argumentation with real proposals published along the existence of the newspaper. Additionally, the paper refers to the concept of children’s literature that is revealed from suggestions offered to the readers and the models that benefit from the newspaper’s issues. The article also devotes a section to tracking the references to the figure of the teacher in the social and economic context of the XIX. This analysis demonstrates the coexistence of renovating educational ideas with other traditional proposals on children’s nineteenth press.