Teatro y educación en la Ley General de 1970. Avances y retrocesos.

The General Education Act, enacted in 1970, appears as the first attempt to regulate Theatre Education in Spain, considering all its diversity. On the one hand, this new law places Art Education in the General Education curriculum and provides it an expressive approach. This showed the pedagogical potential of different procedures of dramatic and theatrical nature, confirmed its educational legitimacy, and produced developments in both their empirical and scientific cultures. On the other hand, the Act stated and promoted the integration of Schools of Dramatic Art and its courses in the university, in tune with what had been its status since 1857 with the Moyano Education Act, and with similar transitions taking place in Europe in the same direction. This paper, which has been written after an analysis of the educational norms derived from the application of the Act, combined with a review of the literature generated at that period, shows the advances the change enhanced. Also, reveals that later Educational Acts were not always confirmed or consolidated, and that provoked important setbacks causing persistent of problems. Also, further research lines particularly relevant in the development of the further research lines particularly relevant in the development of the History of Theatre Education and also of the History of Theatre Pedagogy in Spain have been provided.