L'Ensenyament de la llengua catalana a Mallorca a finals del franquisme : l'Obra Cultural Balear i la creació de l'Escola Municipal de Mallorquí de Manacor (1960-1980) = The teaching of the Catalan language in Majorca at the end of the Franco regime : l'Obra Cultural Balear and the creation of l'Escola Municipal de Mallorquí de Manacor (1960-1980)

Abstract

During the last years of Francos regime, new social agents appeared which highlighted the importance of having an own language and culture and the need to recover its values, by promoting teaching, and producing and spreading culture. This article analyzes the relationship between Obra Cultural Balear (the main entity Balear Islands society), and the Escuela Municipal de Mallorquín de Manacor - an institution that appeared in 1973, with the support of the city hall at the service of the Dictatorship and the State mechanisms of control.
The study of both institutions explains the importance that Obra Cultural Balear had when offering a learning system which was structured in levels, a technical and methodological framework to the project of Escuela Municipal de Mallorquín and also when accompanying with its advice of the actions and orientation of the new Institució de Manacor, when this institution was just starting.
The study also explains the important task of creating a coordinated network by this cultural entity in order to expand the Catalan language teaching in the whole island and how it was generated a need of a school wholly dedicated to the teaching of the native language in Manacor municipality from the machinery that had been created at the beginning of the 60s.