Flows of Academic Knowledge Transfer in Today's Spain: The Rise of the New Field of "Educational Leadership"

The modernizing reform instituted by Franco, the LGE (Ley General de Education/General Law of Education) is compared to later reforms to examine the promises of educational change in schooling and teacher education. The presentation sketches an analytical framework to interpret the flows of academic knowledge and actors to understand its paradoxes: the proposals for action introduce regressive, instrumental changes.