Moral and Civic Education. The New School’s Contribution

Abstract

Our aim is to establish a reflexive analysis about the way in which the New Education's movement understands morality and the way it is meant to be taught, as well as its particular entail with civic education. We offer a synthesis of the investigation, which has its base on some not vey spread primary sources of authors and institutional organs of the movement. With it we clarify the meaning and the ways through which pedagogical currents shaped, in the beginning of the 20th century, a new way of conceiving the practice of these formative areas. We also identify the perspectives of methodological renovation that in this moment arose. These contributions, the result of which are summarized in the final epigraph, have had an important historical influence and help to show, even nowadays, speeches and practices that need to be taken into consideration.