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Popular culture of the good - in addition to being an unusual initiative in our country - was the one brought by the aptly named "Pedagogical Missions", a Board of Trustees that, promoted by the government of the year in 1931, was drawn and more than fulfilled the dream, the goal of overcoming the secular educational and cultural backwardness of a Spain where illiteracy reached practically a third of its population, that is, more than six million people.
The promotion of popular culture, the pedagogical orientation of schools -with the advice of teachers- and citizen education were the three pillars on which the action of the "Pedagogical Missions" was based, designed to "lead the people" , in preference to those who lived in rural areas, the encouragement of progress and the means of participation in it, "as the preamble of his decree of official creation stated.
Teachers, inspectors of primary education, teachers of Normal Schools, writers, intellectuals, artists, ... composed the immense list of collaborators and experts of some "Pedagogical Missions" that in a first stage, understood during the years 1931 and 1932, They unfolded their itinerant cultural improvement work in the center of the country.
The boom of this regenerative institution would take place in 1933 when it extended its activity to Levante, the Basque Country, Galicia, Andalusia and Murcia.
Endowments of libraries to rural populations, readings aloud of literary works, musical auditions with the accompaniment of gramophones, performances of choirs, film screenings, theatrical and guiñoles representations and itinerant museums composed of copies of famous paintings prepared by a select group of artists -among whom a young Ramón Gaya was beginning to stand out- were the tasks of these "Pedagogical Missions" that, until the outbreak of the Civil War, in our Region had a great reach especially the "itinerant missions" that, Between the years 1933 and 1935, they visited several towns in Murcia, including Las Torres de Cotillas.
Here, in our municipality they made an appearance on May 3, 1934 by raising a platform in the Plaza Mayor today, in front of the Town Hall, and before a crowd of neighbors, they would stage "steps" and Cervantine hors d'oeuvres as "La guarda careful ", recitals of verses by the Archean poet Vicente Medina and interpretations of choral songs typical of regional folklore.
-Bibliography consulted:
-TIANA FERRER, A: Las Misiones Pedagógicas, Editorial Catarata, Madrid, 2016.
-VV.AA .: The Pedagogical Missions 1931-1936, Residence of Students of Madrid, 2007.
-Diario Murcia "Levante Agrario", edition corresponding to May 9, 1934.
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