«The shield of the Republic»: Origin, development and challenges of the social right to education in Spain

Authors

  • Victorio Heredero Gascueña Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Espanya)

Keywords:

Social right to education, academic freedom, Second Republic, social reformism, Welfare State.

Abstract

This article stems from the particular historical genesis of the liberal right to education in Spain. The author analyses the process of critique and reconceptualization that the notions of individual and society that had served as a basis for the formulation of this right underwent at the end of the 19th century. This questioning made the emergence of the social right to education possible, on the basis of positive, lay, state intervention which would ensure mass access of the working classes to school; a conception that would have its greatest expression in our contemporaneity during the Second Republic, the social antecedent of the Welfare State which was consolidated in our country after the process of democratic Transition; a model of coexistence that is currently threatened by the regression of the grounds that gave rise to it and the reappearance of the rise in individualistic thinking.

Key words: Social right to education, academic freedom, Second Republic, social reformism, Welfare State.

Author Biography

Victorio Heredero Gascueña, Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Espanya)



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No. 21 (2013): gener-juny

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Monographic theme

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