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Espacio, tiempo y educación
2015
This paper analyzes the role played by the student movement in the restitution of democracy in Spain. Taking as a starting point the situation of university under the Franco dictatorship, and how (and why) students were dealt with, the major features that set the student movement apart from other kinds of activism in that time are described and linked to the unique effects that it had on the status quo, with a special stress on its ability to generate the kind of cultural change required for overcoming the atmosphere of resignation and consent that helped to keep the government in power. The way in which culture, personal issues, and politics got intertwined is shown as a key trait of stude…
‘Then we were ready to be radicals!’ : school student activism in Finnish upper secondary schools in 1960–1967
2021
In the Western countries, Scandinavia and Finland included, the legacy of the student movement of the 1960s has been extensive and established a fixed narrative of a radical movement. This article challenges the elitists and university-centred grand narrative and argues that the student movement was more multifaceted and mobilized young people of various ages and backgrounds. This is done by addressing the international student movement from the perspective of school-aged students in Finnish upper secondary schools, focusing on student activism carried out in school-sanctioned student associations. Above all, this article aims to distinguish the relatively unknown history of the Scandinavia…
Visions and Forms of Democratic Participation in Italian Universities after 1968
2022
The essay focuses on the ideological aspects and organizational dynamics underlying the 1968 protests in Italian universities. It analyses the inter-generational confrontation within the parties and in the wider public sphere in order to explain the new assembly-based organization in the Italian university. Young people in many countries demanded new spaces for a more direct political action; in Italy this would foster a change in the university representatives and parliamentary bodies which had so far mediated student participation. The UNURI (Italian University’s National Representative Union), founded in 1948, would suffer a crisis in 1968 precisely on the thrust of requests from youth i…
La rebelión de los estudiantes
2012
La rebeldía de los jóvenes en los años sesenta se desarrolló en todo el mundo, y no se circunscribe sólo a los estudiantes sino que alcanza amplios sectores de la juventud. Los jóvenes universitarios fueron, en todo caso, actores destacados de la protesta, que se manifestó en varias facetas convergentes. En el artículo se estudia, en primer lugar, los rasgos básicos de la rebelión juvenil y en segundo lugar, las líneas básicas del movimiento estudiantil en España. The rebelliousness of youth in the sixties was developed around the world, and not confined only to students but reaches large sections of youth. The university students were, in any case, outstanding actors of the protest, which …
De la cultura a la política. Los estudiantes de la Universidad de Valencia, 1957-1962
2008
Los estudiantes de los años cincuenta eran diferentes a los de la década anterior. No habían hecho la guerra y se distanciaron de la dictadura de Franco. Se muestra el proceso en la universidad de Valencia y cómo estos estudiantes pasan de actividades culturales a la politización. Students of the fifties were different from those of the previous decade. They had made war and distanced themselves from the dictatorship of Franco. It shows the process at the University of Valencia and how these students move from cultural activities to politicization.