Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader
by Francisco Ferrer Guardia
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On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational movement that emerged in his defence argued that he was simply the founder of the groundbreaking Modern School of Barcelona. Was Ferrer a ferocious revolutionary, an ardently nonviolent pedagogue, or something else entirely? Anarchist Education and show more the Modern School is the first historical reader to gather together Ferrer's writings on rationalist education, revolutionary violence, and the general strike (most translated into English for the first time) and put them into conversation with the letters, speeches, and articles of his comrades, collaborators, and critics to show that the truth about the founder of the Modern School was far more complex than most of his friends or enemies realised. Francisco Ferrer navigated a tempestuous world of anarchist assassins, radical republican conspirators, anticlerical rioters, and freethinking educators to establish the legendary Escuela Moderna and the Modern School movement that his martyrdom propelled around the globe. show lessTags
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- Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 370.115 — Society, government, & culture Education Education Theory of education; Meaning; Aim Objectives of Education Social Responsibility
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- LC196 .F47 — Education Special aspects of education Special aspects of education Social aspects of education Educational sociology
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