Pedagogy´s transcendence and Lasallian teaching in the classroom: Historical background and evolution

Abstract

The Schools founded by John Baptist de La Salle did not fit in the traditional schemes, because from the beginning acted without discrimination and with great openness in their programs. These schools were multiplied and, at the end of his life, De La Salle succeeded in founding 42, in which about 100 Brothers worked. In them were taught reading, writing, spelling, calculation, urbanity, catechesis… always offering a popular education, inspired by the teaching of the gospel, preparing to the students to meet the needs of life.

An article of analytical and historical character is presented. This type of inquiry offers the possibility of reconstructing the facts of the past in the most objective way and to the extent possible, using a documentary research design and proceeding to systematize the primary and secondary sources of both pedagogical scholars, lasallian style with the objective to identify other perspectives on the work, and the legacy of the founder to lasallian pedagogy and teaching. Specifically, it covers a historical period that goes from the S. VII until the thresholds on the XX century. The findings are coarse since John Baptist works in it and is very wide, both for his writings and for the pedagogic part, for example they find the fundamental aims in which his school was created for the poor like: a) The social insertion, b) The labour insertion and c) The training christens. With this it is achieved to create the most important Network of the epoch where the teachers were instructed for his educational practice. Being the charisma the most important value of a teacher.