ABSTRACT
On 3 October 1990 the Spanish Parliament passed the LOGSE (the Educational System General Arrangement Act), the major legal instrument for the Educational Reform that the central and autonomous administrations had been pushing forward in the last decade. After several years of debating the curriculum proposals and experimenting in some schools, a new educational framework has finally been established by the LOGSE and the statutory orders establishing the new curriculum. 1 The new curricula (due to come into force in September 1992 for primary education, in September 1996 for secondary compulsory education, and in September 1998 for post-compulsory secondary education), have brought about an important process of public discussion and debate about the central issues in the curriculum of each subject.
