Jose Elpidio Pérez Somossa. A renovator of Pinar del Rio pedagogical thinking

Abstract

With the arrival of the twentieth century, events that threaten the existence of the Cuban nationality manifest. Again education stands as a bastion in the defense of the Cuban identity. One of the guidelines assumed by Cuban educators in theory is to follow the national educational tradition of the nineteenth century. Among these is the Pinar del Rio educator Jose Elpidio Pérez Somossa, who with his educational actions became a renovator of educational thought in the province, facing the harmful features of scholastic traditionalism which prevailed in school practice in the first half of the twentieth century .