Josefa Martín Luengo


Josefa Martín Luengo, was a free pedagogy researcher.

Biography

She organized Nertóbriga, a boarding school, in Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain. Nertóbriga was noted for its philosophy that children learn best with freedom from coercion. Children were educated in values. This made the local administration to ask for its closing down. It was reported to Spanish Parliament, to Adolfo Suárez's government, by a socialist MP. She founded Free School Paideia together with free pedagogy researchers Concha Castaño and María Jesús Checa in Mérida, Spain, in January 1978.
Paideia Collective was founded by Paideia's workers. She was a Women for Anarchy group member. Women for Anarchy was part of Paideia Collective.

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