Two recent international events on textbook research. The Symposium Education in periods of political transition and the Workshop After the War. A New Beginning?

The present article proposes a report on two recent events devoted to textbook research. We refer to the Conference Education in periods of political transition, held in Berlanga de Duero (Soria, Spain) on 13th-15th April 2015, and the Workshop After the War – A New Beginning? A Comparative Examination of Reading Primers Published and Used in 1945 in Europe, held in Braunschweig (Lower Saxony, Germany) on 13th-14th November 2015. During these scientific reunions, schoolbooks were analysed from different perspectives, evidencing the different national research traditions of the promoters of these initiatives, from Nord and South Europe. The examination of textbooks and other sources offered by the authors in their presentations provided a varied and thorough panorama on the last trends which characterize textbook studies in Europe.