The origins and devolupment of special education in Mallorca (1940-1990) Authors Joan Josep Matas Pastor Centre d’Ensenyament Superior Alberta Giménez – Universitat Pontifícia Comillas DOI: 10.2436/20.3009.01.304 Keywords: disability, special education, associative movement, social integration, social action Abstract The aim of the article is to tackle a first analysis of the history of special education in Mallorca. This cannot be separated from the history of disability and how this group has been seen by the rest of society. Therefore, special education centers emerged at the time when it was realized that people with disabilities could be rehabilitated and educated in segregated spaces. Once achieved they could be integrated and included in society. Firstly, in the forties of the 20th century, initiatives towards sensory disabilities appeared in Mallorca. Two should be highlighted, ONCE and Co l·legi La Puríssima for boys and girls with deafness. From the 60s and 70s of the 21st century, special education schools appeared linked to entities linked to the intellectual disability, either arising from family association movements, or from the social and educational action of the Catholic Church. These, in the eighties, expanded their field of action towards special professional training to achieve the social and work integration of people with disabilities. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2024-05-27 Issue No. 42 (2023): juliol-desembre: Assajos i estudis II Section Articles 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.