La red educativa implantada por las Congregaciones Religiosas Femeninas en Asturias durante la Restauración

Abstract

Regional studies are conspicuously scarce in the history of education, but essential for the elaboration of global conclusions that can transmit complete, objective and somewhat reliable visions of the dynamics that the Sate and regional spaces maintained in matters of education, with very unique and differentiating characteristics. The complexity of the continuous educational debate that arose in the course of the 19th century is evident from the the approval of the first constitutional text of the century, -The Cádiz Constitution of 1812- which attempts to project a state and secular educational system. Perhaps the abundant school legislation that was approved between this and the Constitution of 1876, the reactions of a Church committed to maintaining the educational monopoly, and other aspects of a global, quantitative, ideological, pedagogical nature... prevented little attention from being paid to these educational microhistory studies. Our interest lies, therefore, in approaching a strikingly unknown theme, which is religious education in Asturias, its scope and repercussions, which is diluted despited its importance among a multitude of recent studies referring to the daily finctioning and work dedicated to religious education carred out by public institutions.