The origins of the Lavínia School Authors Montserrat Camps Mundó Institut d'Estudis Catalans Carme Sala Sureda Keywords: Education, anti-Franco movement, pedagogical renovation, open school, Freinet, cooperative. Abstract The will and need to free the school from the bonds of the Franco regime in the 1970s prompted parents and teachers to take up the major challenges involved in restoring the values and democratic practices that had been banned until then. The Lavínia School in Barcelona’s Les Corts district bears witness to this. It was an open, creative, integrating and participatory secular school where everything was done in the Catalan language. Parents’ collaboration, the teamwork of teachers, and the willingness of friends and external professionals (theatre professionals, painters, businesspeople, museum experts) made it possible to turn a utopia into the reality of a favourable atmosphere for learning, sharing and establishing strong friendships among students, still evident after fifty years. There was a great curiosity and desire to study the pedagogical models that preceded us and those that at the time offered us an opportunity for reflection, as well as methods and techniques to consolidate the school project. In this respect, the link with the Freinet institutional pedagogy movement (France) and MCE (Italy) is a good example. This paper is a synthesis of the book Escola Lavínia. Els orígens d'un referent pedagògic (The Lavínia School. The origins of a pedagogical reference). It aims to disseminate the approach of a school at a specific historical moment, highlighting the ties of the school with the political, social and economic reality of the period concerned. It reflects the daily life of the school, with testimonies of students, teachers and parents, and reflections, doubts, attempts, successes and disagreements, forming the best definition of this school as a place for communication, discovery, learning, participation, and enjoyment of creation and invention. Lastly, a key aspect was to maintain the firm conviction of enhancing the values of humanity and democracy in the awareness of our students.Keywords: Education, anti-Franco movement, pedagogical renovation, open school, Freinet, cooperative. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biographies Montserrat Camps Mundó, Institut d'Estudis Catalans Mestras i formadora de professorat Carme Sala Sureda Mestras i formadora de professorat Downloads PDF (Català) How to Cite Camps Mundó, M., & Sala Sureda, C. (2019). The origins of the Lavínia School. Revista Catalana De Pedagogia, 16, 265–283. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RCP/article/view/146028 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 16 (2019) Section Miscellaneous License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Revista Catalana de Pedagogia, authors accept the following terms: Authors grant to Societat Catalana de Pedagogia (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Revista Catalana de Pedagogia. Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Pedagogia for the authorship and originality of submitted articles. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles. Societat Catalana de Pedagogia declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors. The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it. The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
