The Research Group on Pedagogical and Social Thought (GREPPS) has published Giner i la Institución Libre de Enseñanza, des de Catalunya. Cent anys després de la mort de Francisco Giner de los Ríos (1839-1915), which includes the contributions to the homonymous title seminar, which took place in December 2015, with the support of the Department of Theory and History of Education of the University of Barcelona (Campus Mundet).
Francisco Giner de los Ríos and the Institución Libre de Enseñanza represented an engine of pedagogical change unprecedented in Spain. Considered one of the most important intellectuals of the nineteenth century, Giner had a constant presence in Catalonia, which left its mark in the movement of educational and cultural renewal of the first decades of the twentieth century, and especially in the studies of pedagogy of the University of Barcelona.
The authors of this work delve into illuminating aspects such as the echo of the British public schools in the institutionalist environment and their collegial, tutorial and sports spirit; the pedagogical nomadism and the cult to the nature that inspired the excursions by the mountain range of Guadarrama; the pantheistic and romantic aesthetics of Giner, and his relations with Machado and Gaziel; the bridges of dialogue between Catalonia and Madrid, and, especially, the educational and editorial influence in the Principality, truncated by the Francoism, which closed the Institution and imprisoned the teachers who had been trained.