Evening classes at the ICAI center: Technical training and social promotion (1908-1931)

The Catholic Institute of Industry and Arts (ICAI) sets up in the first decade of the twentieth Century. Its aim was to facilitate to the working class away of social promotion. Catholic identity and educative vocation were present since the beginning in its activities. Engineering studies and works...

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Main Author: María Dolores Peralta Ortiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Pontificia Comillas 2013-02-01
Series:Miscelánea Comillas
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Online Access:https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/miscelaneacomillas/article/view/864
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Summary:The Catholic Institute of Industry and Arts (ICAI) sets up in the first decade of the twentieth Century. Its aim was to facilitate to the working class away of social promotion. Catholic identity and educative vocation were present since the beginning in its activities. Engineering studies and workshops contribute to the same objective. In this paper, an analysis of the first twenty years of existence of theses classes is presented. In this first period of time we focus onits educational objectives, the curriculum and its development, the students and its achievements.
ISSN:0210-9522
2341-085X