Fundar la ciudadanía, formar el hombre, construir la democracia. Europa como solución para las escuelas de España

Authors

Juan Manuel Fernández SoriaSalto de línea Universitat de València.

Abstract

Establishing Citizenship, Training the Human Being, Constructing Democracy. Europe as a Solution for Spanish schoolsSalto de línea Salto de línea Taking as the starting point the diagnostic of Spain's problem and the remedy, whose solution seems to be found in Europe, this article approaches four of the fundamental searches of European nations, most of them carried out by pensioners of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios, JAE (Board for Advanced Studies), which make reference to many other Spanish problems.Salto de línea The urgency of creating a feeling of nation and establishing citizenship found an appropriate response in France.Moreover,this country provides school laicism as the founder element of both issues. In the search of human beings, many of them have their eyes fixed on England. In this country, they have already found out, among many other things, the promising pedagogical resource based on the «self-government».The response to this forceful idea of community and social worry will be discovered and studied in Germany. Moreover, this country provides an attractive humanist pedagogical model as well as an attractive pedagogy of values.Salto de línea Progressive Education provides the ways and procedures used for the teaching democracy. This institution considers both autonomy and community as the axis on which the learning and practice of democracy turns. On the other hand, this solution is considered as the definitive one to the problem of Spain.The future, at the time still not written, that follows the Spanish Civil War (1936), turns the solutions coming from Europe to solve the problems of Spain into incomplete ones.

Keywords

History of Education, European Influences in Spain, Junta para Ampliación de Estudios, Citizenship, Democratic Learning.