La institución libre de enseñanza y su relación con Extremadura

Resumen

The Institución Libre de Enseñanza or ILE was one of the most important pedagogical phenomena that have developed in Spain. It is placed in a prominent place within the field of the History of the Education keeping alive like line of investigation. This doctoral thesis focuses on the framework of relations between this phenomenon and Extremadura, orienting the study object to a specific territorial framework. The fundamental objective is to analyze the connections between Institución Libre de Enseñanza and Extremadura. For the historical and educational construction, primary and secondary sources of historical archives and library funds have been obtained from both the Autonomous Community of Extremadura and Madrid, collecting more than three hundred documents dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. The historical-pedagogical method has been used, and a necessary process of external and internal criticism of the sources has been used, and later, to analyze the ideas and episodes expressed in the different publications, works, files, letters, among others documents related to the phenomenon of study. This work examines the presence of Extremadura´s men and girl, not only in the Institution, but also in all projects and organizations linked to it. Also, an analysis of the footprint left by the Institución Libre de Enseñanza in Extremadura has been carried out, studying those institutions or initiatives that maintained links with the ILE. This has allowed us to obtain a global view that confirms and explains this relationship.