El Instituto Nacional Femenino de Enseñanza Media Emperatriz María de Austria de Madrid (1964-1970)

Abstract

The creation of the National Women's Institute for Secondary Education Emperatriz Maria de Austria was a Baccalaureate approach girls from a working class areas in the outskirts of Madrid, by encouraging social mobility for many of them who, through these studies, got delinked the ideology of submission that sought to impose the Women's Division during the early years of Franco. This article is especially novel because it deals not only a center that breaks with the elitism that had Institutes of Secondary Education, but because it provides information on school architecture during the Franco regime, through the description of their areas and, basically, because it shows the development of school life through knowledge of: governing bodies, teachers and pupils.