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Images of a group of children doing gymnastics exercises at the Escola de Vallbona d’Anoia

Date
1934
Archive
Municipal Archive of Vallbona d’Anoia
Document type
Imatge fixa
Reference code
AMVallbona Anoia.Fons:Josep Masclans.UD 61-63-64
Link to the online document
Description

This photograph from 1934 shows a group of children doing gymnastics exercises at the Vallbona School in Anoia. It is a valuable testimony to the pedagogical renewal promoted during the Second Republic, which advocated a comprehensive, active and secular education. Physical activity was part of an educational model that wanted to form healthy, free and engaged citizens. The document reflects how the school became a space for social transformation and modernization of the country. It is also an example of how Catalonia aligned itself with the most advanced European pedagogical currents of the moment.