Celebration of the first international meeting of GEMYR at the Faculty of Education of the UNED.

Celebration of the first international meeting of GEMYR at the Faculty of Education of the UNED. The following topics were addressed: Ideals of formation in Eastern and Greco-roman culture; pedagogical renovation in the early middle ages; pedagogy during the Humanist Renaissance; the Age of Enlightenment and the modern era; pedagogical marginalization and inclusion in the 20th century. Eleven papers were given and in all nineteen articles were published in the work Ideales de formación en la historia de la educación ('Ideals of formation in the history of education'), which was coordinated by F. J. Vergara Ciordia, R.F. Sánchez Barea and B. Comella Gutiérrez. (Madrid, Editorial Dykinson, 2011, 833 pages). The prologue to the volume was written by Antón Costa Rico, president of the Spanish Society of the History of Education (SEDHE), who was also in attendance at the event.

Members of the SEDHE were then given copies of the minutes from the meeting.