Los Movimientos de Renovación Pedagógica (MRP) en la España de la transición educativa (1970-1985)

The mrp are public expression of a special and exceptional historical moment of the Spain of the educational transition (1970-1985). They are close and are twinned with other social movements that work with great vitality in a very favorable context for the emergence of freedoms of all kinds, at the end of the iron-fisted Franco dictatorship. The mrp have the collective aspiration, sometimes romantic, to build a new world, a different and more just society, in this case from processes of change in educational policy and pedagogical renewal. The shift from mrp to smaller pedagogical renewal groups in their composition, and more focused on specific pedagogical aspects, occurs when the mec, political parties and teacher unions channel other aspirations existing or born even within the mrp. In our opinion the mrp of this stage are the verification of an active and multiform social movement gestated and built in the field of education, unique in the world and unrepeatable, typical of the socio-political process experienced in Spain of the educational transition since the dictatorship Francoist to democracy.