Teachers and the Struggle for Democracy in Spain, 1970-1985

ISBN-13: 9781137323736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 267 str.

Tamar Groves

Opis

This book analyses teachers' social movements during the Spanish transition to democracy, between 1970 and 1985. It shows how ordinary teachers struggled to liberate their country's education system from the legacy of dictatorship. It explores their organizations, the paths of action they chose and their interaction with the disintegrating autocracy and the emerging democracy. In addition to analyzing the national aspects of their initiatives it follows their grass-roots activities in two local contexts, the fast growing metropolitan city of Madrid and the backward rural province of Salamanca. It thus combines a general evaluation of the phenomenon with intimate glances at the people who drove it forward. The success of the transition, the book argues, was due not only to the manoeuvrings of political leaders, nor to poplar protests in the streets, but was instead a common civic effort. By vindicating the importance of democratic professionals it thus illuminates the Spanish transition to democracy from a new angle.

Recenzje

“Teachers and the Struggle for Democracy in Spain, 1970–1985, published as part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements, constitutes a notable, serious and rigorous contribution to the history of education. This work, when it was first published, was pioneering; today, it has become a fundamental reference work for the study of MPIs in Spain during its latest transition to democracy.” (José Luis Hernández Huerta, European History Quarterly, Vol. 47 (2), 2017)

Spis treści

Abbreviations Introduction 1. Representation Put to the Test: The Teachers Movements and the Creation of the Sindicato de los Trabajadores de la Enseñan za 2. Educational Revolution From Within: The Movements for Pedagogical Renovation 3. Rehearsing for Democracy: Union Agitation in Madrid 4. Liberating the Classroom: Pedagogical Renovation in Madrid 5. Recovery of Civil Society at a Local Level: The Teachers Movements in the Province of Salamanca 6. Back to the Village: Teachers as Agents of an Alternative Culture Conclusion Sources and Bibliography ?

O autorze

Tamar Groves is a Researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Salamanca University, Spain. She obtained her PhD in 2010 from Tel Aviv University and the UNED, Madrid, Spain.