%0 Journal Article
%T Reflections on education policy in Spain: a problematic discipline
%A Manuel de Puelles Ben¨ªtez
%J Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research
%D 2013
%I 
%R 10.7821/naer.2.2.48-53
%X Education policy in Spain, a curricular discipline in the Education Faculties since 1974, has been a foreign body ¨Cbecause of its inevitable connection with political sciences¨C both in the former Degree in Education and in the current one, a result of the curriculum adaptation to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The Degree in Education aims to train teachers, not education-oriented political scientists, but, unlike other similar disciplines ¨Ceducation sociology or education economy¨C which have managed to find their place in the curriculum as supplementary knowledge, education policy runs the risk of being distorted if we do not root it in the political sciences it stems from. The reflections presented in this paper therefore focus on the three major problems the discipline does not get to resolve: its conceptual indeterminacy, the right nature of this body of knowledge and the lack of canonical boundaries of its knowledge fields.
%K EDUCATIONAL POLICY
%K POLITICS OF EDUCATION
%K POLITICAL SCIENCE
%U http://naerjournal.ua.es/article/view/59