The Working Christian Youth:a popular educational movement

Abstract

The Working Christian Youth Qoc] was created in Brussels in 1912 in a period of deap change in which the social catholic movement needed to modify its ways of doing with popular sectors. For this movement, Cardijn set an educative method based on three lines: learning to see, to judge and to act, by giving more importance to life and daily facts since they are modelling the youth personality, than to doctrinal ideas. After introducing its creator, we will tell about his educative pattern before studying the origins of the Working Christian Youth in Spain before the Spanish Civil War, and his plan a to create a Federation of Young Working Catholics. We will conclude with a few notes on the movement during Franco's era.

Keywords

• bélgica
• catolicismo
• obreros
• organizaciones juveniles
• sindicalismo