The Pedagogical Reform Movements: building democracy from the classroom Authors Àngels Martínez Bonafé Federació de Moviments de Renovació Pedagògica del País Valencià (Espanya) Keywords: democracy, teacher training, transition, pedagogical renewal, social movement, Pedagogical Reform Movements, self-organisation. Abstract This article talks about the actions and discourse of self-organised teachers in the Confederation of Pedagogical Reform Movements (PRM), from the last few years of the dictatorship in the Spanish State. It presents diverse strategies of pedagogical reform linked to a commitment to the real democratisation of social life in teaching: firstly in the work to disarticulate Francoism inside schools, institutes and universities; after 1982 in the conflicts and negotiations with the social democracy for the development of new curriculums and models of teacher training; and afterwards in the resistance to the economic and ideological attack of neo-liberalism. In the analysis of this process we must also consider the alliances or obstacles that these groups found in relation to other social movements, organisations and political institutions. The main sources of information are the documents published in campaigns, congresses, teaching materials, public notices, etc., by the PRM groups in different territories and by the State Confederation of Pedagogical Reform Movements.Key words: democracy, teacher training, transition, pedagogical renewal, social movement, Pedagogical Reform Movements, self-organisation. Author Biography Àngels Martínez Bonafé, Federació de Moviments de Renovació Pedagògica del País Valencià (Espanya) Downloads PDF (Català) PDF PDF (Español) Issue No. 27 (2016): 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.