@article{DomínguezVela:16608, author = "Domínguez Vela, Irene and Arraiz Pérez, Ana and Sabirón Sierra, Fernando", title = "{Las escuelas alternativas: el caso de "La Escuelita"}", year = "2014", note = "Throughout history, there have been paradigms and education patterns which have given education an emancipating vision. Nowadays, there are alternative pedagogical initiatives which support the development of this emancipating objective focusing on a respect to life processes, freedom and active learning from experience. Taking an ethnographic case as a starting point, deep research was done through active observation, interviews and analysis of documents at an alternative school in Zaragoza. The aim was to know and understand this reality and its meaning, focusing on social communicative education processes at that school. The results made it clear that there was a high social awareness and commitment which could be dealt with in further research. Therefore, this shows that these alternative pedagogical initiatives which create emancipating life and learning, taking respect, freedom and love as basic principles, may clearly be the pillars of human progress.", }