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The innovative and vanguard experience known as «La Isla de los Niños» that was accomplished in the Canary Islands by the teacher Ricardo García Luis, represents the reality of writing done in the schools. His ability to prepare students for participation in a form of media communication led to the fusion of educational, cultural and social elements that facilitated a dialog between the students and the world. The purpose was not to prepare a student publication for the educational center, but rather to publish in the daily newspaper. The children expressed themselves freely on diverse topics and themes at a time in which the Franco dictatorship represented definite censorship. Initially the work came out of the professional work of the aforementioned teacher, in a school in the town of La Zarza, in the municipality of Arico (south of the island of Tenerife), that discovered the ability to narrate, describe, interpret and retell the activities of his students that he felt worthy of notice. He broke with the mold and all educational stereotypes and opened new horizons for his students when he edited the material written in his school and published in the newspaper El Día a weekly paper from Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

RESUMEN: En España a partir de la constitución de las autonomías, se abordan los contrastes regionales de los distintos territorios que componen la monarquía, tratando de conocer diferencias geográficas, históricas, étnicas, jurídicas, económicas y culturales. Sin embargo, hay que reconocer que la evolución de la historia local y regional ha sido bastante desigual. Existe una historiografía regional consolidada en aquellas regiones en las que antiguos planteamientos nacionalistas han impulsado su desarrollo. En Canarias, el auge de la historia regional es reciente, aunque el estudio del pasado histórico arranca con Viera y Clavijo y Millares Torres, surge en el siglo XX en el seno de la investigación universitaria. ABSTRACT: After the constitution of the authonomous regions in Spain, regional contrasts of the territories that constitute the monarchy were analyzed in order to learn about historical, geographical, ethnical, economical and cultural differences. Nevertheless, the development of local and regional history has been unequal. There is a consolidated regional historiography in the regions where nationalistic positions have promoted its development. In the Canary Islands, the development of regional history is quite new and originates in the university, in spite of the fact the study of the past initiates with Viera y Clavijo and Millares Torres.