Fiesta, gimnasia y república: lectura espartana de tres modelos estatalistas de educación física (Platón, Rousseau y el Jacobinismo revolucionario)

Abstract

The autors have studied the important influence which the Spartan educational model has had in the long history of education, they have traced this development in three historical moments: in Platonic philosophy, in the political theories of Rousseau and in Jacobin period during the French Revolution. The austere and idealised Sparta, which was established in each of the previously mentioned historical eras, the idea of celebrating public festivals, with a distinct civil and social character —with gimnastic displays are a magnificiant tool for socialising and politically education the general public.