Models for a new democratic school. The influence of the Italian pedagogy on collectives of teachers during the political transition in Catalonia and Spain Authors Antoni Tort i Bardolet Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya Maite Pujol i Mongay Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya Keywords: political transition, pedagogical renewal, Italian pedagogy, early childhood education, educational policy, teacher training. Abstract The transition from Francoism towards a democratic regime involved the mobilisation of broad educational sectors in search of references for a school that would leave behind the impositions and miseries of a mediocre and authoritarian education. In addition to the recovery of the active pedagogy of the time of the Spanish Republic and the experiences of resistance that occurred in public and private schools during the dictatorship, groups of teachers and civic entities paid attention and incorporated educational proposals from other contexts which seemed suitable for the construction of a new public education. This article analyses the existing connections during the period of political transition (the 1970s and 1980s) of the renewal movements of education in Spain and, in particular, in Catalonia, with the pedagogical experiences, especially in the field of early childhood education (scuoledell’infanzia) of municipalities and Italian cities.Key words: political transition, pedagogical renewal, Italian pedagogy, early childhood education, educational policy, teacher training. Author Biography Antoni Tort i Bardolet, Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (Espanya) Downloads PDF (Català) PDF (Español) PDF Issue No. 25 (2015): gener-juny Section Monographic theme License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.