El Instituto-Escuela de Sevilla (1932-1936): un proyecto inconcluso de renovación pedagógica en España

Abstract

This article approaches the pedagogic labor of the Institute-School (I-E) of Seville in the period from 1932 to 1936. A private initiative carried out during the Second Republic that arises in the middle of the social interest provoked in Europe concerning the New School and the educational innovative experiences that were carried out in Europe and USA. His aims, chord to the pedagogic beginning of the Free Learning Institution (ILE), were orientated in reaching the integral development of the person to intellectual, physical, social, moral and artistic level. It implied a new way of conceiving education in which education prevailed over instruction by promoting values such as respect, justice, beauty, peace, etc. That marked a new way of educating. Nevertheless, its way was short, bloody and clearly differentiated from those that would proceed. The outbreak of the Civil War (1936-1939) and the imposition of the Franco dictatorship led to its closure and subsequent looting. So the sevillian center was born and died with the Republic.