The Educational Plan for Spanish Guinea by a Progressive Teacher: Cándido López Uceda

Authors

  • Miquel Vilaró i Güell

Keywords:

Colonialism, Spanish Guinea, Teaching Regulations of 1928, Catholic Missions, General Directorate of Marocco and Colonies

Abstract

The article focuses on the role that Cándido López Uceda played in the educational reform of the Spanish Territories of the Gulf of Guinea, proposed in 1926 by the General Directorate of Morocco and Colonies. The educational reform in Spanish Guinea was part of a general plan aimed at expanding colonial businesses, whose viability required having a basic supply of middle-grade technicians, to be trained from the local population. At the same time, the article aims to cover the void that exists regarding the figure of this prominent Granada pedagogue, targeted by Franco’s regime for his leftist republicanism.

Received: 2025/02/05

Admitted: 2025/05/08

 

Author Biography

  • Miquel Vilaró i Güell

    Miquel Vilaró i Güell, actualmente jubilado, ha sido profesor asociado de Análisis Geográfico Regional del Departamento de Geografía de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Es Máster en relaciones Internacionales por la Fundación CIDOB y Doctor en Geografía Humana por la UAB. Ha trabajado en materias de geografía histórica y colonialismo en África, en especial concernientes a los antiguos Territorios Españoles del Golfo de Guinea. Es autor de numerosas publicaciones, con especial interés en la historiografía de las misiones católicas en la época colonial. Entre sus libros destaca La colonización de la cruz en la Guinea Española (Alcanar, CEIBA, 2018).

Published

2025-12-21

Issue

No. 67 (2025): Spagna contemporanea - n. 67, a. XXXIV 2025

Section

Saggi e ricerche

License

Copyright (c) 2025 Fondazione di studi storici Gaetano Salvemini, Torino - Viella Libreria Editrice, Roma

Creative Commons License

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How to Cite

[1]
Vilaró i Güell M., “The Educational Plan for Spanish Guinea by a Progressive Teacher: Cándido López Uceda”, Spagnacontemporanea, no. 67, pp. 7–33, Dec. 2025, Accessed: Apr. 30, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://spagnacontemporanea.it/index.php/spacon/article/view/1098