Technical education reforms during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Changes in and reactions to the Industrial School of Vilanova i la Geltrú

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  • Alba Baiges López Universitat de Barcelona (Espanya)

Keywords:

Primo de Rivera dictatorship, technical education, Industrial School of Vilanova i la Geltrú, special patronage, higher education.

Abstract

The present article analyses how, through technical education reforms, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera imposed a new education system and new subjects in vocational training centres, seeking to make their pupils citizens who, based on patriotic and authoritarian values, would become part of their new socio-political rank and file. However, this paper reflects above all on the rejection these measures brought about among teachers and students based on the study of one specific case, the Industrial School of Vilanova i la Geltrú. This centre is especially significant because it demonstrates the counterproductive effects of the Primo de Rivera reforms from the first years of the dictatorship, the time when higher education studies were supressed at this school, as well as the state control imposed on these technical centres and their teaching staff.

Key words: Primo de Rivera dictatorship, technical education, Industrial School of Vilanova i la Geltrú, special patronage, higher education.

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