Education for Peace in Freinetian Development: From Original Discourse to Current Modern School Movements on the Iberian Peninsula

Authors

  • Xosé Manuel Cid Fernández Universitat de Vigo (Espanya)
  • M. Victoria Carrera Fernández Universitat de Vigo (Espanya)
  • Núria Diéguez Sans Universitat de Vigo (Espanya)
  • Antía Cid Rodríguez Universitat de la Corunya (Espanya)

Keywords:

education for peace, Freinet pedagogy, Pedagogical Reform, democratisation, secularism.

Abstract

Education for peace in its widest and most positive meaning comprises the doctrinal corpus of Freinet pedagogy, both in his origins as a teacher fighting for active, democratic and secular pedagogy, and in his conviction that teachers needed to work together to achieve the transformation of schooling and the profession. This article reviews progress in this direction made in the first expansionary stage of Freinet’s pedagogy and its head-to-head with authoritarian and repressive governments in many nations, especially Spain and Portugal, during the decades where Republican educational achievements were put under siege and torn down. Reorganisation at the end of the Second World War enabled the Modern School Movement to spread around the globe, with highly active organisations in Galicia and Portugal from the end of the dictatorships, where Education for Peace was one of the fundamental pillars of reformist socio-educational action.

Key words: education for peace; Freinet pedagogy; Pedagogical Reform; democratisation; secularism.

Author Biography

Xosé Manuel Cid Fernández, Universitat de Vigo (Espanya)



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No. 29 (2017): gener-juny

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Monographic theme

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