Antonio Ballesteros Usano: Trajectory, work and pedagogical culture

Antonio Ballesteros exercised a brilliant career in Spain and Mexico. In Spain he worked as a teaching inspector and disseminator of the educational renewal, and in Mexico, where he arrived in 1939 fleeing the Franco regime, he performed as a teacher for normal-school students and pedagogues, as wel...

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Autor: Cruz Orozco, José Ignacio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Perfiles Educativos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/59755
Acceso en línea:https://perfileseducativos.unam.mx/iisue_pe/index.php/perfiles/article/view/59755
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:History of education
Historical memory
Alternative School
Professional career
Teacher training
Spanish exile
Historia de la educación
Memoria histórica
Escuela Nueva
Trayectoria profesional
Formación de maestros
Exilio español
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Sumario:Antonio Ballesteros exercised a brilliant career in Spain and Mexico. In Spain he worked as a teaching inspector and disseminator of the educational renewal, and in Mexico, where he arrived in 1939 fleeing the Franco regime, he performed as a teacher for normal-school students and pedagogues, as well as as a writer. This paper reconstructs his career in an integral way for the first time, by applying the historical-educational methodology and employing unpublished primary sources. It provides new data, corrects inaccuracies and analyzes the ideological and pedagogical references that guided his work. His links with the Alternative School movement, his professional efficiency and the influence that he exerted among his students are only some of the conclusions emphasized in the following research. His career has been awarded several recognitions in Mexico, where his memory still lasts even five decades after his death, which is not the case in Spain.