El compromiso de un científico con la sociedadBlas Cabrera y los problemas de la educación superior en España (1919-1931)
ISSN: 2386-3846, 0212-0267
Year of publication: 2006
Issue: 25
Pages: 493-518
Type: Article
More publications in: Historia de la educación: Revista interuniversitaria
Abstract
It is generally admitted that those University Professors devoted to those disciplines usually considered as scientific only live for their studies and researches, keeping well away from their countries� social and educational problems. In this article the compromise of such a recognized physicist as Blas Cabrera is documented trough his role along the different conflicts and reforms in Spanish Higher Education which took place between 1919 and 1931. These initiatives had not being remarked until now, and demand the convenience of including him amongst the most relevant and honoured personalities of the History of Education in Spain during the first third of the twentieth century.