Educación física en los libros de texto escolares anteriores al franquismo (I): Obras generales

Abstract

Prior to 1939, most of Spanish textbooks for the whole Elementary education matters agree that main curricular contents for teaching physical education were to be gymnastics, games, and walks and outings; moreover, some interdisciplinary aspects were present that, unfortunately, did not succeed within the Spanish educational system, such as curricular efforts rotation in the whole scholar activity to avoid intellectual surmenage.
Among the two kinds of normative publications we can state, a more extent and variety range of ideas seem to lay in approved than in allowed ones, with no outstanding difference between both categories.