Transformación capitalista, orientación neocatólica del sistema educativo y crisis del sistema de enseñanza tradicional en España. Un estudio sociológico de Eloy Terrón, 1972-1983

Authors

Rafael Jerez MirSalto de línea Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Abstract

Capitalist transformation, neo-catholic guidance on the education system and crisis in the traditional education system in Spain.A sociological study of Eloy Terrón, 1972-1983Salto de línea Salto de línea This article sets out Eloy Terrón’s sociological interpretation of the crisis in the traditional Spanish education system taking into account his moral and political commitment as dean of the College of Doctors and Graduates of Madrid and as president of the General Council of Colleges in the transitional period to democracy. In the first part, or the introduction,we provide essential biographical, epistemological and bibliographical information about his sociology of the education system. In the second part,we study his writings from 1972 to 1979 about capitalist industrialization, the transition to democracy and the crisis in the traditional education system. And in the third part, we analyse his publications from 1979 to 1983 about the neo-catholic guidance on the Spanish education system, within the theoretical framework of his interpretation of the political background of every Church as an organised religion, giving prominence to the main thesis of the author,namely the contradiction between the capitalist transformation of the ruling class and Spanish society, and the political and ideological rehearsal for a new middle ages, during the first two decades of «the Franco years», as the main cause of the consequent crisis in the traditional education system in the seventies.

Keywords

Eloy Terrón, 20th century, Spain, education system, Neo-Catholicism.