Education and Power: Teacher's Repression in the Teacher Training Colleges (Spain, 1936-1942)

Abstract

This paper begins with a review of the literature on Francoist teacher’s purge. It suggested us that the Teacher Training Schools could have suffered a stronger control, especially if we consider their role in the educational system. Therefore, we shall now focus on this professional purge related to these teachers, that is to say, teachers who will have in their hands the ideology of the future primary teachers. We are looking for the personal file of each teacher and we have the first results after the Boletín Oficial del Estado, BOE (Official State Gazette) where all the resolutions were supposed to be published. The impact of this process on the teacher’s staff was very powerful. This survey tends to contribute to the development of a national overview of the teachers’ purge, including all kind of teachers. We can draw the tentative conclusion that primary teacher’s educators suffered a stronger repression, although there are significant differences when variables like gender and professional standing are taken into account.