The influence of school and youth cultures in the generating education in Valencian

Abstract

The generation of Valencian people born during the seventies and at the beginning of the eighties has its own specific features that make it an interesting object of study. The new social and cultural contexts generated by globalization and the Spanish and Valencian political paradigm that emerged during the democratic transition marked a completely unprecedented scenario. In this context the normalization of education through the medium of Catalan, achieved in 1983, was an outstanding historic milestone. Through the interrelation of disciplines and the contextualization of backgrounds, this paper presents the main ideas of an earlier study in which we explored this generation’s cultural strategies and identities in the process of cultural recovery in the País Valencià. This study takes a look at how the historic innovation of education in Catalan and the new youth cultures affected the construction of identity and this generation’s cultural actions.