Evolution and development of female religious schools in Spain

• Autor(a) principal: Sampayo, Maria Fernanda Piñero
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de História da Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38931
• topic: Education; Private education; Religious education; Women’s education; Religious congregations; Educación; Enseñanza privada; Enseñanza religiosa; Educación femenina; Congregaciones religiosas; Educação; Ensino privado; Ensino religioso; . Educação das mulheres; As congregações religiosas

In Spain the education, which can be defined as private, wastraditionally held by the Church, which carried out the task ofeducating through their educational institutions. The causes ofthis predominance mainly reflect the Catholic tradition of thecountry, but in addition, from the nineteenth century on, when anincreasing number of citizens accesses studies, the schools of theChurch learned how to respond to a growing demand that stateinstitutions seemed unable to satisfy. These circumstances,together with other causes, led the schools run by theseorganizations spread over the Spanish territory in urbansituations, and consolidate as the preferred option for a risingsocial sector, the middle class, who chose to train especially forhis daughters, religious schools.