L'Ensenyament de la llengua catalana a Mallorca a finals del franquisme : l'Obra Cultural Balear i la creació de l'Escola Municipal de Mallorquí de Manacor (1960-1980) = The teaching of the Catalan language in Majorca at the end of the Franco regime : l

During the last years of Francos regime, new social agents appeared which
highlighted the importance of having an own language and culture and the need
to recover its values, by promoting teaching, and producing and spreading culture.
This article analyzes the relationship between Obra Cultural Balear (the main entity Balear Islands society), and the Escuela Municipal de Mallorquín de Manacor - an
institution that appeared in 1973, with the support of the city hall at the service of
the Dictatorship and the State mechanisms of control.

The study of both institutions explains the importance that Obra Cultural Balear
had when offering a learning system which was structured in levels, a technical and
methodological framework to the project of Escuela Municipal de Mallorquín and
also when accompanying with its advice of the actions and orientation of the new
Institució de Manacor, when this institution was just starting.

The study also explains the important task of creating a coordinated network by
this cultural entity in order to expand the Catalan language teaching in the whole
island and how it was generated a need of a school wholly dedicated to the teaching
of the native language in Manacor municipality from the machinery that had been
created at the beginning of the 60s.