Josefa Martín Luengo (

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritag ...

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, 1944 -

, 1 July 2009), was a

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pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

researcher.

Biography

She organized Nertóbriga, a boarding school, in

Fregenal de la Sierra Fregenal de la Sierra (originally Frexnal or Frexenal) is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. Geography Fregenal de la Sierra is located in the Sierra Suroeste comarca (county), among the small hills and ravi ...

(

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. Nertóbriga was noted for its philosophy that children learn best with

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from

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. Children were educated in values. This made the local administration to ask for its closing down.Fregenal de la Sierra, una experiencia de Escuela en libertad (Campo Abierto Ediciones, 1978) (Fregenal de la Sierra, a School in freedom experience) It was reported to

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, to

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's government, by a

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MP. She founded Free School (Escuela Libre) Paideia together with free pedagogy researchers Concha Castaño and María Jesús Checa in Mérida (

, in January 1978. Paideia Collective (Colectivo Paideia) was founded by Paideia's workers. She was a Women for Anarchy (Mujeres para la Anarquía) group member. Women for Anarchy was part of Paideia Collective.

Books

* ''Desde nuestra Escuela (From our School)'' * ''Intento de Educación Antiautoritaria y psicomotriz'' * ''La escuela de la anarquía (The anarchy school)'' * ''Paideia, una escuela libre; 25 años de educación libertaria… (Paideia, a free school; 25 years in free pedagogy)''

Web

Escuela libre Paideia
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