Gabriela Ossenbach has a doctorate in Educational Science and a degree in the History of America. She is currently Professor of the History of Education at the Education Faculty of UNED (Spanish equivalent of the Open University). Her research work has centred around comparing the origins and evolution of public education systems in 19th and 20th century Europe and Latin America. She is head of the MANES Research Centre (research into school text books), based at UNED, where she promotes research into school text books in Spain, Portugal and Latin America over the past two centuries.