Las primeras expediciones de maestros de la Junta para Ampliación de Estudios y sus antecedenteslos viajes de estudio de Cossío entre 1880 y 1889

Abstract

In 1911,the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios, JAE (Board for Advanced Studies) implemented a policy consisting of organizing teacher expeditions so that they could get to know the best European schools and, at the same time, provide them with high-level training. The first three expeditions were directed by Luis Álvarez Santullano,who followed Manuel B.Cossío's advice not only as regards candidates' selection,but also concerning the schools that would be visited.Cossío had ample experience thanks to his study trips between 1880 and 1889.These trips let him become acquainted with educational reforms in several European countries and get to know their main protagonists.Thus, the groups of teachers that left Spain to travel around made contact with an active innovative school movement already known by Cossío.When they came back to Spain,they promoted a new pedagogical culture that would inspire a set of changes in their professional development and, at the same time, instil new civil ideals.