Historia de Galicia, educación e construcción nacional

Abstract

History of GALICIA: education and the building of a nation. Taking a nationalist standpoint - Galicia is a nation - the author goes back in history as far as the early Middle Ages to detect various attempts at the Castilianisation of Galician culture and the colonisation of the collective Galician imagination (Alphonse X, role of the church after the Council of Trento, centralista politicians, etc). In spite of this, from the 19th century onwards, a regionalist attitude begins to emerge, fostered by a liberal, urban, lay bourgeoisie which in 1931 created the Galician nationalist party and which promoted the short-lived Galician Statute of Autonomy, approved on 28 June 1936, just a few days after the beginning of the Franco uprising. Analysis is then made of the slow awakening of Galician national consciousness during the difficult years of the Franco dictatorship, with discussion of the processes of historiographical recovery, observed both and general level and as regards the history of education.