Ideas, materials and practices of Freinet in Spain during the Second Republic
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Celestín Freinet’s efforts to assign an international nature to his Cooperative of Lay Education, crossed the French frontiers. His ideas reached thus very early on many parts of Europe, as well as more distant regions such as America and the Far East.
Spain was not left out of this phenomenon and very quickly the educational ideas and the school techniques of the French Modern School were adopted by local teachers who followed the path of the French movement. As a result a Spanish movement emerged around the Spanish Cooperative of Freinet’s techniques, which consisted, at the last phase of its existence, of more than 200 members.
In this study I explore the Freinet school culture in Spain in the 1930s of the 20th century, the ideas that guided the Modern School, and the ways they were carried out by the Spanish Cooperative of Freinet’s techniques. I especially look at school notebooks, both inside and outside