L'Experiència escolar laicoracionalista a Xàtiva a l'inici del segle XX

Abstract

From a few notes on the educational situation in the Valencian Country (shortage in the number of public primary education schools, poor hygienic conditions and lack of equipment of the school buildings, difficulties in the organisation due to the heterogeneity of the students, lack of social prestige and regard for the professoriate), on the relation-ship between the initiatives of pedagogical renovation of the time and the development of some particular political projects (anarchism, socialism, blasquism) and on the social, economic, political and cultural reality of Xativa city, we analyze the start off and the functioning of educational experiences like the ones from the laic school El Progreso, later named Circulo de Unión Republicana, and the rationalist school Escuela Moderna Laplace, led by José Casasola, that, linked to sociopolitical initiatives ideologically progressive and republican and anticlerical politically, were seeking, since the end of the XIX century, within a more general approach, the construction of an alternative educational model to both the public and catholic school, as an instrument of political change.