La formación profesional del profesorado de segunda enseñanza en España a la entrada del siglo XX: proyectos, debates e influencias

Authors

Carmen Benso CalvoSalto de línea Universidad de Vigo. Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación. Departamento de Análisis e Intervención Psicoeducativa. Ourense, España.

Abstract

Professional secondary education teacher training in Spain in the early 20th century: projects, debates and influencesSalto de línea Salto de línea High School education reforms undertaken in many European countries in the transition between the 19th and the 20th Centuries involved new teacher-training strategies based on the general belief that a deep High School education reform would not be possible without an appropriate teacher-training scheme. In this field, attention was focused on the German system, since Germany, as other Central European countries, had for long paid attention to the pedagogical education of High School teachers with high success. In Spain, this idea was advocated by the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (ILE) as part of its High School education reform strategy, and by a small minority of teachers who, although not sharing all the ILE reform premises, agreed with the Institution on the urgent need to provide pedagogical training to High School education teachers. This paper reviews the self-criticism of this small group of teachers regarding their own profession, and some of their most relevant proposals and initiatives on the professional training of High School education teachers in the first decades of the 20th Century, in the framework of the reform atmosphere of the time. Among teachers’ contributions, two cases deserve special mentioning. First that of Psychology Professor Eloy Luis André, who drew up a profiled High School teacher-training project linked to the access to the profession. Second, that of the group of teachers publishing in the Revista de Segunda Ensañanza, the first professional journal of High School teachers, and particularly that of the journal’s Director and main promoter José Rogelio Sánchez. The journal was a publication with a clear pedagogical purpose, which contributed both to the creation of a favourable opinion about the theoretical and practical pedagogical training of High School teachers and to the spreading of new teaching practices among the official teaching force, thus enabling their effective practical training.

Keywords

History of education, history of teachers, history of High School education; history of High School education in Spain; history of High School education teachers; history of High School education teachers in Spain; professional training of High School education teachers in Spain; High School education teachers; teacher training plans.