«Innecesarios a todas luces» : el desmantellament de la xarxa d'instituts en la postguerra = «Obviously unnecessary» : the dismantling of state high school net after Spanish Civil War

Abstract

This article studies the policy of radical reduction of the estate high schools net that Francoism conducted in the postwar period. It introduces the growth of this net from the late twenties and it concludes from archives sources that republican governments doubled the number of estate high schools. Contrarily, the closure of schools constituted a central axis of francoist secondary education policy. In the postwar period half of the former estate high schools were closed, especially those that were located outside of the province capitals. The article researches the criteria used to conduct this dismantlement and, finally, it analyzes from different parameters the resulting net.