Alternative pedagogies and school practices in 20th century Spain. Highlights

Abstract

The 20th century is the century par excellence of alternative pedagogies. Throughout its diachrony we find a whole series of theoretical, political and practical proposals that, situated on the margins of the system and with a marked critical character of confrontation with the traditional, aim to transform, in this case, school practices. In the text we address some of the moments of this historical evolution in which the push of pedagogical reflection causes major changes in the practical activity of educational work. The process of school modernization in Spain in the first third of the century, under the pedagogical ideology of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (ILE); the National Questionnaires for Primary Education of 1953 and 1965, as the first official regulation of school work; and, finally, the General Law of Education of 1970 as a point of arrival of school proposals linked to the technocratic model, will be the stellar moments chosen for a more descriptive than investigative analysis.