Origen y evolución del modelo técnico-cultural en la enseñanza del periodismo en España (1887-1975)

For much of the 20th century, journalism education in Spain has progressively moved towards its current university status. Traditionally, it has been thought that the model of higher education for Spanish journalists had a mixed character, combining subjects of a cultural nature with purely technical ones. The aim of this research is to research with scientific systematicity the origin and evolution process of this technical-cultural model in the higher education of journalism in Spain through the presentation of the pioneering nonformal or artisanal initiatives –from 1887 to 1926– and the analysis of the cultural and technical subjects contained in the study plans, from its earliest days until journalism is officially considered a university discipline. This retrospective longitudinal and descriptive study covers eight decades of the history of journalism education in Spain (1887-1975), and a total of fourteen syllabuses from seven educational institutions. The research empirically confirms that all the stages of journalism education in Spain have common grounds: the mixed nature of curricula.