The School in the City: School Architecture as Discourse and as Text

• Autores: Agustín Escolano Benito
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 39, Nº. 1-2, 2003 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Urbanisation and education: the city as a light and beacon?), págs. 53-64
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper examines, from the perspective of the new cultural history of education, the historical process of codification of school architecture in Spain at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, a period of special importance in the configuration of the spaces that the state dedicated to teaching. It also shows how the material structures of the school may be analysed as a record of educational discourses and practices, as well as the social norms of the actors who came together on the scenarios which provided for a shared building