«Las escuelas de amiga»: female spaces for infants and girls work and education

• Main Author: Rufino CANO GONZÁLEZ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2010-11-01
• Series: AULA: Revista de Pedagogía
• Subjects: siglos xvi-xx; espacios femeninos; escuelas de amiga; escuelas de párvulos; escuelas de niñas; españa
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0214-3402/article/view/7440

<p class="CM1" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'CACOB B+ Stempel Garamond'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Starting with the limited information that the «History of Education» has gathered (in its diverse areas) about the «schools of friends» («Las escuelas de amiga»), we must think about a series of questions which we will try to answer. In this endeavour, there are three basic hypotheses which structure our work: </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p class="CM5" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 10pt; text-indent: -17.85pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.7pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt ";Times New Roman";;">         </span></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'CACOB B+ Stempel Garamond'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>«The school of friends (“La escuela de amiga”) constitutes an historic fact which wasn’t sporadic, but generalized, at least in Andalucia and some other Spanish geographic areas (as those in both Castillas)». </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt ";Times New Roman";;">         </span></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">«The school of friends (“La escuela de amiga”) presented two variations in its manifestation: such as pre-school schools (“párvulos”) and popular girls schools (“escuelas populares de niñas”)». </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="text-indent: -18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt ";Times New Roman";;">         </span></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">«Managed by women and set up in female work spaces». </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p><p class="CM1" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'CACOB B+ Stempel Garamond'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The process of verification of these hypotheses are founded on the information from a series of documentary sources which are available to us and are based on testimonies of diverse natures such as literary, historic-pedagogic, journalistic, legal, iconographic etc. and from other figures recognised by history. </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Their analysis allows us to get to know some of the characteristics of said schools, as well as the verification of the hypotheses</span></span></p>