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The book shows how teachers struggled to liberate their country´s education system from the legacy of dictatorship, combining a general evaluation of the phenomenon with intimate glances at the people who drove it forward. By vindicating the importance of democratic professionals it illuminates the Spanish transition to democracy from a new angle.

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Abbreviations Introduction 1. Representation Put to the Test: The Teachers Movements and the Creation of the Sindicato de los Trabajadores de la Ense¤an za 2. Educational Revolution From Within: The Movements for Pedagogical Renovation 3. Rehearsing for Democracy: Union Agitation in Madrid 4. Liberating the Classroom: Pedagogical Renovation in Madrid 5. Recovery of Civil Society at a Local Level: The Teachers Movements in the Province of Salamanca 6. Back to the Village: Teachers as Agents of an Alternative Culture Conclusion Sources and Bibliography ?

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Tamar Groves is a Researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Salamanca University, Spain. She obtained her PhD in 2010 from Tel Aviv University and the UNED, Madrid, Spain.

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