2023Justa Freire - First Day Cover

Justa Freire was born in Zamora in 1896; she belonged, therefore, to that generation of women teachers who began to work in the 1920s and who benefited from the influence of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. Justa arrived in Madrid in 1921, and joined the Cervantes School Group, which was responsible for the education of children from working-class families in Cuatro Caminos. She soon became interested in pedagogy and the ways in which teachers could improve their knowledge and training: after completing her studies with stays abroad, she returned to Madrid, where she was one of the first directors of a centre in which the majority of teachers were boys.