Josefa Martín Luengo (

Salamanca Salamanca () is a Municipality of Spain, municipality and city in Spain, capital of the Province of Salamanca, province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the ...

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, 1944 -

, 1 July 2009), was a

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pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

researcher.

Biography

She organized Nertóbriga, a boarding school, in

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(

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. Nertóbriga was noted for its philosophy that children learn best with

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from

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. Children were educated in values. This made the local administration to ask for its closing down.Fregenal de la Sierra, una experiencia de Escuela en libertad (Campo Abierto Ediciones, 1978) (Fregenal de la Sierra, a School in freedom experience) It was reported to

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, to

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's government, by a

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

MP. She founded Free School (Escuela Libre) Paideia together with free pedagogy researchers Concha Castaño and María Jesús Checa in Mérida (

, in January 1978. Paideia Collective (Colectivo Paideia) was founded by Paideia's workers. She was a Women for Anarchy (Mujeres para la Anarquía) group member. Women for Anarchy was part of Paideia Collective.

Books

* ''Desde nuestra Escuela (From our School)'' * ''Intento de Educación Antiautoritaria y psicomotriz'' * ''La escuela de la anarquía (The anarchy school)'' * ''Paideia, una escuela libre; 25 años de educación libertaria… (Paideia, a free school; 25 years in free pedagogy)''

References

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Escuela libre Paideia
2009 deaths 1944 births University of Salamanca alumni 20th-century Spanish educators 20th-century Spanish women educators {{Academic-stub