«Christian Education for Workers». The educational activity of the diocese of Zamora during the Restoration: school for adults and the Catholic Circle of Workers

• Main Author: Miguel Ángel HERNÁNDEZ FUENTES
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2017-12-01
• Series: Historia de la Educación
• Subjects: escuelas de adultos; círculos católicos de obreros; catolicismo social; cartas pastorales; zamora.
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0212-0267/article/view/18088

Throughout the nineteenth century came a stream within the Church that came to be known as Social Catholicism. Some of the most striking developments of this social action of the Church were the promotion of popular education and religious instruction, understood by the prelates as the best way to improve the moral situation of Spain. An early and fruitful outcome of this proposal was the creation of schools for adult education with which it pretended to solve the labor situation from an educational level. This article analyzes the episcopal discourse that served as an ideological support for the implementation of these schools and also presents the implementation and development of two initiatives that promoted the education of the proletariat in the diocese of Zamora: the Sunday and Night Schools and the Catholic Circle of Workers.