Educación y desarrollo urbano en Pamplona. La Educación Infantil, 1940-1965 [Education and Urban Development in Pamplona. Childhood Education 0-6 years, 1940-1965]

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Abstract

This paper aims at contributing to the knowledge of the historic development of Childhood Education in Pamplona from 1940 to 1965. This historic period has a political and educational homogeneity. These are the central years of Franco’s regime and what we now call Childhood Education was regulated by the Law of Primary Education of 1945, and it never had a political goal. Pamplona, with an important shortfall of school places at the beginning of the period, during those years went through an important urban development. Those were not years of town planning, and buildings and neighbourhoods got crowded with children before the school facilities were built. The main demand was the places of Childhood Education and we are going to see, neighbourhood after neighbourhood, how parents, schoolteachers, town hall and ministry officials tackle that need.