Un Programa de Educación Popular: el legado de Ferrer Guardia y la Editorial Publicaciones de la Escuela Moderna (1901-1936) = Programme on Popular Education: the legacy of Ferrer Guardia and Publicaciones de la Escuela Moderna Editions (1901-1936)

Abstract

This article doesn't deal, as it is usually the case, with Ferrer Guardia's life, works and ideas. Nor, at least not directly, with his educational works and ideas. It deals with the publishing house «Publicaciones de la Escuela Moderna» founded by Ferrer in 1901 in order to achieve the goals of his Modern School, trying to place it in the background of the publishing world in the Spain of the first third of the 19th century. To this aim the article analyses its origins and first publications (books and leaflets edited) both under Ferrer's direction (1901-1909), and the one of his legatee Lorenzo Portet (1912-1920), as well as the continuity by the publisher Maucci, (from 1925 to 1936) with the publication of some of the 127 volumes edited during the previous stages under Ferrer and Portet (between 1901 and 1920). A brief analysis of the authors edited, as well the translators, is also carried out. In short, this article attempts to show how the popular education programme lying behind «Publicaciones de la Escuela Moderna» remained in force, as a legacy, after Ferrer's death in 1909, even if it was rethought and remodelled by his legatee Portet.