Antònia Adroher i Pascual

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Adroher and the second or maternal family name is Pascual; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".

Antònia Adroher i Pascual
Parti ouvrier d'unification marxiste Parti des socialistes de Catalogn
Personal details
Born	(1915-06-22)June 22, 1915 Girona, Spain
Died	September 7, 2007(2007-09-07) (aged 92) Banyuls-sur-Mer, Spain
Spouse	Carmel Rosa Baserba
Occupation	Teacher
Profession	Human right activist Politician

Antònia Adroher i Pascual (22 June 1915 – 7 September 2007) was a Spanish teacher and political activist from Catalonia, Spain.

Biography

Antònia studied teaching at the Normal School of Teachers of Girona while she was a member of the Spanish Federation of Education Workers (FETE) within the UGT.

She was one of the founders of the POUM and during the Spanish Civil War, she was the first woman to become Counselor for Culture and Propaganda at the Girona City Council.

On 21 October 1936 With this mandate, she set up, an education system using innovative and progressive educational practices based on "rationalist principles of work" and fraternity In practice, it organizes a public and free school for all providing education in Catalonia. and ensuring children's care and health, on the basis of hygienist principles, and equality for boys and girls through gender diversity.

In 1939, she was exiled in Toulouse then in Paris where she founded, with her husband Carmel Rosa Baserba, the Casal de Catalunya. she returned to Catalonia in 1977, two years after the end of Franco's dictatorship.

Awards

Antonia won then prize Premi Mestres 68 for her achievements in renovation of the pedagogy in Catalonia.

Also in 2006, she received the Creu de Sant Jordi. In Girona, a public library (inaugurated in January 2008) and a street are named after Antònia Adroher.