Die Rolle des Katalanischen im Erziehungswesen am Anfang dieses Jahrhunderts

Abstract

The article first gives an overview of the situation of education in Barcelona around 1900. The panorama of the various public and private institutions, religious and non-religious, makes us almost forget the little importance of schooling at that time. Two important and often confused movements are fighting for an improvement in the school: the pedagogical renewal movement and the Catalan school movement.The use of Catalan in school becomes a language conflict and is treated in Parliament as a political conflict. The analysis of that parliamentary debate shows that the transcendent political fact does not lie in language use but in the ideological, pragmatic and pedagogical facts that are always linked to linguistic facts.