An event for local teachers

The association offers training opportunities for teachers (its summer schools are especially well known), hosts various working groups, organizes conferences and debates, and publishes several prestigious educational journals, including Perspectiva Escolar.

On September 29, 1965, the Rosa Sensat Teacher Training School was publicly presented, albeit clandestinely, in Barcelona. It was officially constituted a week later, on October 4, during a meeting held at a private home. This initiative built on the legacy of the Summer Schools once promoted by the Mancomunitat and the Republican-era Generalitat, as well as the now-defunct Associació Protectora de l'Ensenyança Catalana (Protective Association of Catalan Education). Between 1965 and 1968, some of the active schools supporting the Rosa Sensat initiative formed a group called Coordinació Escolar.

Between 1971 and 1973, the association became increasingly politicized, in line with the broader social opposition to the Franco regime, particularly during the political and social crisis of the 1970s. From 1974 to 1976, it played a key role in the teachers’ movement, contributing significantly to proposals for a new public education model.

The initiative was designed to train younger, practicing teachers who wanted to improve their professional practice. The driving force behind it was Marta Mata and other teachers from various schools — experienced educators with a decade of innovative teaching behind them, often working in small, non-conformist schools — and support from some parents and other interested individuals. They were guided by more senior educators, including several who had been part of the progressive pedagogical movement before the Spanish Civil War, such as Angeleta Ferrer, Alexandre Galí, Artur Martorell, and Pau Vila.

The association takes its name in tribute to Rosa Sensat i Vila, a pioneering teacher and pedagogue from the early 20th century.