Universidad Popular de Cartagena

Popular University of Cartagena
Universidad Popular de Cartagena
Other name
UP
TypePublic
Established1932; 1981
DirectorJosé Macián Montesinos[1]
Address
Calle Jacinto Benavente, 7
,
Cartagena
,
Region of Murcia
,
Spain

37°36′35″N 0°58′44″W / 37.609667°N 0.978833°W / 37.609667; -0.978833
Websiteup.cartagena.es

The Universidad Popular de Cartagena (English: Popular University of Cartagena) is an adult education center first founded in 1932 in the Spanish city of Cartagena (Region of Murcia).[2]

History

In 1931, following the proclamation of the Second Republic, the new national government set out to improve the educational situation in Spain with a broad program of reforms and initiatives, including the Misiones Pedagógicas and La Barraca.[2] Wishing to collaborate in this effort, the poets Carmen Conde and Antonio Oliver decided to set up a popular university in their hometown, an institution well-established in France but which had not yet taken root in Spain. The idea materialised with the opening of the centre on 10 March 1932, with the stated aim of promoting the literacy of the population through free classes and the programming of cultural events.[3]

The UP's board of directors included both poets, Ginés de Arlés García, Manuel Mas Gilabert and Antonio Puig Campillo, who served as president. Funding came from the Cartagena City Council, as well as from private individuals such as the physician Luis Calandre, who in 1935 was granted the title of honorary president in recognition of his financial and teaching collaboration.[2][4]

The university maintained a close relationship with the Patronato de Misiones Pedagógicas, which resulted in the inaugural mission in the province of Murcia consisting of a joint teaching project in which the team sent by the Patronato, composed of Matilde Moliner Ruiz, Pablo de Andrés Cobos and Antonio Sánchez Barbudo, departed from the headquarters of the Cartagena institution accompanied by Conde and Oliver, travelling between 26 March and 1 April 1933 to the towns of Cabo de Palos, Fuente Álamo de Murcia and Zarcilla de Ramos.[5] This was followed by more expeditions and visits by illustrious personalities, such as the presentation on 28 January 1933 of Perito en lunas, the first book published by Miguel Hernández, which was also attended by his patron Ramón Sijé.[6] The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, however, interrupted all the centre's activities, including the publication of the centre's official bulletin, Presencia. Cuaderno de afirmación de la Universidad Popular.[5]

In 1981, the UP was refounded, with the support of the cultural association Abraxas and under the auspices of the municipal government of the democratically elected Enrique Escudero de Castro.[7] In this second period, the Cartagena institution was the first of its kind to become operational in the Region of Murcia, and in 1984, together with the others, it established a technical coordination that was given official status at the regional meeting held the following year.[8]

References

  1. ^ O., L.; Hernández-Ardieta, P. (28 November 2016). "La obra 'Todo es real' gana el premio de poesía Antonio Oliver Belmás" [The work 'Todo es real' wins the Antonio Oliver Belmás poetry prize] (html). La Opinión de Murcia. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Pérez Rojas, Francisco Javier (1986). Cartagena, 1874-1936 (transformación urbana y arquitectura) [Cartagena, 1874–1936 (urban transformation and architecture)]. Murcia: Tres Fronteras Ediciones. p. 43. ISBN 84-7564-038-9.
  3. ^ Egea Bruno, Pedro María (1996). "Población activa y analfabetismo [Working population and illiteracy]". In Tornel Cobacho, Cayetano (ed.). Manual de historia de Cartagena [History of Cartagena Handbook]. Ayuntamiento de Cartagena. p. 320. ISBN 84-875-2936-4.
  4. ^ Martín González, María Victoria (2010). "Cartagena en el corazón de Luis Calandre Ibáñez" [Cartagena in the heart of Luis Calandre Ibáñez] (PDF). Cartagena Histórica (37). Cartagena: Editorial Áglaya: 26. ISSN 1696-9901.
  5. ^ a b Moreno Martínez, Pedro Luis (2007). "Carmen Conde y una ilusión: la educación del pueblo". Carmen Conde, voluntad creadora [Carmen Conde, creative drive]. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales. pp. 105, 108–9. ISBN 978-84-96411-26-5.
  6. ^ Fernández Palmeral, Ramón (2016). "Periodo de Perito en lunas". Simbología secreta de Viento del pueblo [Secret symbolism of Wind of the People]. Lulu.com. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-329-94058-1.
  7. ^ Tonda Mena, Enrique (1994). "Formación para el desarrollo y la participación: las universidades populares [Training for development and participation: popular universities]". In Sáez Carreras, Juan (ed.). El educador social [The social educator]. Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia. p. 114. ISBN 84-7684-483-2.
  8. ^ Martos Aulló, Pedro A. (1988). "Las universidades populares y la formación de adultos". In Moreno Martínez, Pedro Luis; Viñao Frago, Antonio (eds.). Alfabetización y educación de adultos en Murcia. Pasado, presente y futuro [Literacy and adult education in Murcia. Past, present, and future]. Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia. p. 171. ISBN 84-7684-132-9.

Bibliography

  • Rodríguez Cánovas, José (1978). Antonio Oliver Belmás y la Universidad Popular de Cartagena [Antonio Oliver Belmás and the Popular University of Cartagena] (2nd ed.). Madrid: Molegar. ISBN 84-300-0057-7.
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