Secularización social y métodos activos para la catequesis escolar en el franquismo (1939-1975): problemas y efectos de una transferencia de praxis educativa

Abstract

The article studies the debates about the educational transfer of active educational methods to school catechesis fueled by social secularization during the Franco dictatorship. It was the educational academic establishment that begun to propose active methods for the catechesis, quoting progressive educational authors. However, university secularization and catechesis specialization, gradual transformation of the praxis, socio-cultural path dependence and social pressure on social pastoral led to the adoption of the active methods of the latter, particularly the Révision de vie. The extension of this method could explain that some of the changes in, mainly the reading of, the 2nd Vatican matched the requirements of the method, hypothesizing the ability of practices to change ideas. However, the Révision de vie not only fostered a secularizing anthropology, which was contradictory with the original catechetical purpose, but led their adherents to social compromise and to questioning school catechesis itself.