The JAE pensioners in Castile and Leon during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930). The pedagogical elite in search of knowledge

Abstract

The Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas was an organization characterized by its drive to develop the training of professionals in multiple academic and professional disciplines, where its work in the educational field, in the region of Castilla y León, and the teaching staff itself must be highlighted. In this study we consider the analysis of the pensioners in this field and the aids that were granted to them during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930). In it, we discover how pensioners followed three main lines of work: educational organization and teaching methods, the state and functioning of the educational inspectorate and normal schools, and specific disciplines. The enjoyment of their pensions was key to the consolidation of their professional careers during the Francoist period, for those who refused to spread renewal; or to suffer repression and oblivion in the cases of those professionals who constituted the educational vanguard during the Republican period.