New School: a new pedagogy of reading in Catalonia

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  • Maria Pilar Navarro Universitat de Lleida

Keywords:

history of pedagogy, reading, libraries, New School, cultural and education programmes.

Abstract

The article analyses the factors that impacted the appearance of a new pedagogy in reading in the first third of the 20th century in Catalonia. Apart from the outstanding figures such as Pere Vergés, Artur Martorell or Anna Rubiés other factors determined
and contributed to spreading the didactic and methodological proposals that would make up a new pedagogy of reading, based on the New School movement. The establishment of the network of public and school libraries, the emergence of large
publishing houses specialising in children’s books, the whole generation of teachers who took up the challenge of renewing the school and, also, the institutional boost from the two periods of self-government, in times of the Catalan Commonwealth and
during the Republican Government of Catalonia, made the transformation possible.

KEY WORDS: history of pedagogy, reading, libraries, New School, cultural and education programmes.

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Author Biography

Maria Pilar Navarro, Universitat de Lleida



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