María Luisa Navarrovida y obra. Historia de una profesión docente en el movimiento renovador español (1885-1948)

Abstract

This research makes a biographical study about María Luisa Navarro Margati, teacher and pedagogue, whose training and profession are part of the Spanish renewal movement of the first third of the twentieth century. Her teaching work is confined to the Colegio Nacional de Sordomudos in Madrid (1912-1936). In the 20s and 30s of the last century she collaborated in the Madrid press, besides being co-founder and collaborator of Boletín Escolar (1917) and the Revista de Pedagogía (1922-1936). Around the same time, she stands out as a translator and commentator of authors who are limited to the New School. She is one of the few women who managed to become visible in the Second Spanish Republic; visibility that will cost her exile. She will live in England for a few years, far from working life. However, the Argentine exile will allow her to recover it: lectures, courses, university chair in Tucumán, and again the publishing world through Losada. Shortly before her death she left teaching duties to dedicate herself again to social work (as she did in the republican years and very briefly in England): she founded and directed the Commission of Aid to the Spanish Democrat (1945), to assist Spanish refugees in southern France.