Unamuno: las funciones educativas del estado. Del estado docente al estado organizador de la enseñanza

Abstract

The article aims to determine the political foundations of the education proposed by Unamuno, who, in many ways, agrees with the position defended by the Regenerationist Movement, in its historical time. However, it remains true that his position casts some connotative nuances resulting from his peculiar conception of secular education, since, as known, the secular concept in Unamuno does not lose any religious sense, when bonding with the Spanish popular Catholicism (Volksgeist).
The democratization of education, the statist education and the anti-politization of teaching are the three most distinctive political principles of this author, despite the fact that he detached from his defense of the «common school» after the approval of the Spanish Constitution of 1931, due to his reaction to articles 26 and 48.
In the light of the cultural atmosphere of the time, the present article focuses
primarily on Unamuno’s thinking, trying to determine the internal coherence of his postulates and educational principles.