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

Authors

  • María Dolores Peralta Ortiz Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Keywords:

Social question, Working-class people education, Technical training, Social education, Catholic education, Jesuits.

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

María Dolores Peralta Ortiz, Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Profesora de Pensamiento Social Cristiano

Published

2013-02-19