Joan Bardina Castarà, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joan Bardina Castarà

Spanish educationist, journalist and writer (1877-1950)

Date of Birth: 27-May-1877

Place of Birth: Sant Boi de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 10-Jul-1950

Profession: writer, lawyer, pedagogue, journalist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Joan Doménec Bardina Castarà (Spanish: Juan Bardina Castará) (1877-1950) was a Spanish-Chilean theorist of education, acknowledged for his innovative approach to pedagogy and for his contribution to renewal of the Catalan schooling system.
In Chile he is known also as a scholar in law; in Spain, and especially in Catalonia, he is recognized as a member of the Catalanist movement.
Active in Carlism during his youth, he is considered a typical case of a transitional political identity, moving from Carlism to peripheral nationalism.
Increasingly concerned with social issues, by the end of his life he sympathized with Francoism and Nazism; he also focused more on his extended family and became increasingly religious.
His manuals, published anonymously and related mostly to health, hygiene and cuisine, were fairly popular in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s.