She studied inBARCELONA

MADRID

GENEVA

She undertook education studies in Barcelona and in Madrid's Escuela Central de Magisterio (Central Education Studies School). Afterwards she studied at Geneva's Institut Rousseau and other European schools, where she learnt about new educational trends.Her great organizing ability led her to become the first director of the ‘Escola del Bosc’.In 1930, she became the director of Barcelona's GrupEscolar Milà i Fontanals. Severely affected by the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, she got retired in 1939.In 1921 she was commissioned to design the curriculum of the Institute of Culture and Popular Library of Women

L’Escola del BoscDifficult times…

Grup Milà i Fontanals

She gave conferences around Catalunya, Spain and therest of Europe, mainly in France.

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HER PHILOSOPHY

Education has to be based on the activity of the student, and the student has to discover what he/she can do, rather than giving him/her the results.Students should have more freedom in their education.Pedagogy should be adapted to the world around them.Social education has to be proposed, the student should

learn more than just the theory of a subject.

What needs to be done…•Limiting the number of students in class, depending on their age.•Cooperative work among the different teachers/subjects at school.•Mutual cooperation parents /school

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Marta Mata i Garrigafounded the School Rosa Sensat for Teachers in 1965.

JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

• He was born in Madrid. Since childhood he

was surrounded by culture. He was linked with

politics and journalism all his life.

• Ortega y Gasset, studied in Germany and was

influenced by other German philosophers like

Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp.

• When he returned to Spain after finishing his

studies, he became a professor at the university

of Madrid.

• After that he started to write in newspapers

like “The Sun” (El Sol) and also became a

politician.

• He was the leader of a parliamentary group of

intellectuals known as Al Servicio de la

República.

Leaving Spain at the outbreak of the Civil War, he spent years of exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina until moving back to Europe in

1942. He settled in Portugal by mid-1945 and slowly began to make short visits to Spain. In 1948 he returned to Madrid, where he

founded the Institute of Humanities, at which he lectured

• Ortega y Gasset proposes that philosophy must overcome the limitations of both idealism (in which reality is centered around the ego) and ancient-medieval realism (in which reality is located outside the subject) in order to focus on the only truthful reality (i.e., "my life" — the life of each individual).

“Beauty that attracts you at first

sight is not normally the same one

you fall in love with.”

"Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia“ "I am I and my circumstance"

• He thought that life was a radical reality;

because of that his books were based on those

thoughts:

–Living is self-knowledge and self-

understanding.

–Living is finding oneself in the world.

–Life is fatality and freedom.

• Ortega y Gasset influenced other Spanish

philosophers, some psychologists and some

writers.

LA GENERACIÓN DEL 27

• Nowadays we have the University Research

Institute Ortega y Gasset as part of his legacy .

In 2011 there were Spanish protests, also referred to as the 15-M Movement, the Indignants Movement, and Take the Square #spanishrevolution, as a series of ongoingdemonstrations in Spain whose origin can be traced to social networks.

The first demonstrationsstarted on March 15th in Puerta del Sol. 10000 people went

In Barcelona there weredemostrations too and peoplecamped for weeks at Plaza Catalunya, organizingmeetings and debates.