“El movimiento Freinet valenciano (1931-39)” is the name of the debate that on Monday, 1 February, will gather in La Nau, at 19:00, the councillor for Education, Research, Culture and Sport, Vicent Marzà; Carmen Agulló, professor of Theory and History of Education of the Universitat de València; Ferran Zurriaga, teacher and writer and Freinet researcher; and Alfred Ramos, teacher and writer. Free entrance until reaching the capacity of the room and could be followed in this link.
Célestin Freinet was one of the most important referents of modern pedagogy. This debate, presented by Antonio Ariño, vice-principal for Culture and Equality of the Universitat de València, is celebrated on the occasion of the presentation by Alfred Ramos, “Mestres de la Imprenta. El moviment Freinet Valencià (1931-1939)” (Universitat Jaume I, 2015). This book was awarded recently with the Premi Baldri Reixac 2015 in the study, search and pedagogical essay area, awarded by the Lluís Carulla Foundation of Barcelona.
Through the 465 pages, this volume aims to recover the memory, the history of those teachers of the 30s who committed with passion to change the school, to renew the atmosphere od the class, to break the secular isolation of rural schools.
The work starts with a tour around the pedegogical trajectory of Célestin Freinet, the creator and promoter, together with Élise, of the printing movement in the school; the birth of the C. E. L. (Coopérative de l'Enseignement Laïc) and the organisation of the Modern School movement, the actual FIMEM (International Federation of Modern School Movements), that gathers a great number of educators from more than forty countries. It is framed into the context of Republican School where was born and developed the Valencian, state and Freinet movement, during its first stage 1931-1939.
The central body of the research is the inventory, cataloguing and analysis of the forty-one Valencian Freinet publications. In the study of each journal, of their content, of the topics, their characteristics and peculiarities, and the relationship of the journals they were in contact with.
About the author
Alfred Ramos i González, (Castellón de la Plana, 1951). Teacher and writer.
During the 60s he was part of the cinema and together with Joan Vergara wrote and directed short films. Founding member of the pedagogy groups Freinet ACIES and MCEP.PV. He participated in the organisation of the first Summer Schools of the Valencian Country (1976-78). His works as a teacher include the publications: “Sambori” (1980), “Raïm de pastor” (1983) and the series “Baladre” (1986-1987), “Alimara” (1992-1994) and “Ortografia. Treball sistemàtic” (1995-1997).
Part of his work as a writer, in collaboration with Francesc Martínez, was focused on studying the press in the works “La premsa local i comarcal de l’Horta Sud” (1997), “Les cartelleres de l’Horta Sud” (2002) and “Temps de foscor: La premsa de l’Horta Sud en el franquisme” (2003). He also published “El llibre de la Pau” (1976) with Mª V. Navarro and T. Pitxer, “El fantasma del carrer Cavallers” (1998), “Ciclisme en la sang” (2007) and the script “Carles Salvador: Elogi d’un xiprer”, apart from participating in several collective books.
He wrote more than 300 articles in different publication and awarded with the Joanot Martorell (1978), Raquel Payà (1990), Investigaciones de l’Ideco del HS (1996), Benvingut Oliver (2002) GUaixm Escola Valenciana (2011), Guaix, Escola Valenciana (2011) and XVII Jaume I de l’Alcudia (2012) prices.
Regarding the Freinet movement, he is author of “Els mestres valencians de la CETEF (Cooperativa Espanyola de la Técnica Freinet) 1933-1939”, the “Escola” journal (1965-1969) and “Mestres de la imprenta”.
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