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"Factory model schools", "factory model education", or "industrial era schools" are ahistorical [1] [2] terms that emerged in the mid to late-20th century and are used by writers and speakers as a rhetorical device by those advocating changes to education systems.
Francisco Ferrer Guardia. The Ferrer school was an early 20th century libertarian school inspired by the anarchist pedagogy of Francisco Ferrer.He was a proponent of rationalist, secular education that emphasized reason, dignity, self-reliance, and scientific observation, as opposed to the ecclesiastical and dogmatic standard Spanish curriculum of the period.
Escuela Nueva was founded in the mid-1970s by Vicky Colbert, [2] along with Beryl Levinger and Oscar Mogollón as co-founders. Colbert's family had a strong involvement in education. Her mother had set up teacher training colleges in Colombia and her grandfather had been Colombia's minister of education. [1]