Gabriela Ossenbach-Sauter, PhD

e-mail: gossenbach@edu.uned.es

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain

She has a degree in Pedagogy and History of America (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and a PhD in Educational Sciences from the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid, Spain. Professor of History of Contemporary Educational Systems in the Department of History of Education and Comparative Education (Faculty of Education) of the UNED, and director of the Research Center on MANES textbooks, which is based in the UNED, and from the that research has been promoted on school texts in Spain and Latin America in the last two centuries. She is currently President of the Spanish Society for the History of Education. Her research work has focused on the origin and evolution of public education systems in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a comparative perspective, with a special emphasis in Latin America. Likewise, she has devoted a good part of his research to the history of school culture (school texts, study and conservation of the historical heritage of educational institutions, etc.). She is the coordinator of the Advisory Board of the Classics of Education Series, published since 2001 by the New Library Publishing House of Madrid, in collaboration with the Spanish Society for the History of Education.