TEACHERS FOR A CHANGE: LA GENERATION OF 70

Abstract

The slow and long professional development of the Spanish teachers since the mid-nineteenth century, from Moyano’s Law, was cut short by the civil war from 1936 to 1939. Since then, it is possible to distinguish three stages until the late twentieth century, an evolution which can be viewed as the reconquest of the professional and personal dignity of teachers: one of them is called authoritarian, the another controlled by technocratic criteria and the third of access to a greater prominence of teachers through participation in the planning and management of educational fact. The second of these stages is discussed in more detail because of its character as a bridge connecting the other two, marking the difference between a totalitarian regime (the Spanish post-war) and democratic (the present).