La Enseñanza de primeras letras en España en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII : contenidos y métodos a través de algunos tratados de enseñanza

• Main Author: Sylvie Imparato-Prieur
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de La Rioja 2013-05-01
• Series: Contextos Educativos: Revista de Educación
• Online Access: https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/contextos/article/view/424

This study considers a combination of four education treatises published in Madrid between 1780 and 1798. All of them present the detail of being written by teachers, who could apply the teaching they recommended in different junior school of the capital. This article analyses the proposed contents and used methods, that permit to define the ideal teaching, as men of Enlightenment in Spain imagined. It demonstrates that these pedagogic methods answer to a child’s new conception and are in keeping with the Enlightenment reformist politics, in that it ‘s not a question to form the perfect christian: it’s essential to bring up the tomorrow’s perfect citizen.