Albino Núñez Domínguez

Albino Núñez Domínguez was a Auteur, a Pédagogue and a Galician Poète .

He was born in Sanpedro da Mezquita (has Merca, Orense) on December 13rd from 1901. he Studies Body teaching in the Teacher training school of Ourense, being " disciple preferred of Vicente Risco, Felipe Pedreira, Jose Soler and Mrs Araceli Ancochea" (Vilanova has). He exerted of teacher in the localities Amoroce and Maceda (Orense), by starting in the impoverished atmosphere of the Galician village his enthusiasm by the pedagogy, which must be the great passion of its life.

In 1932, a.T.E.O. (Association of Workers of the Teaching of Orense), he was his president, it decides to publish a teaching review which would be called " School of Travail" and which had a happy walk during two years, with twenty-six numbers published. One charges his address with Albino Núñez Domínguez, " a teacher returned his profession and of wealth of ideas rénovateures, which had as collaborators with all the Board of the Management of this preceding periodical, “República”, and great quantity of dispersed republicans of Master by the province of Orense" ((Joam C. Chilhon Iglesias).

The review then constituted authentic revulsive in the teaching, anchored in the old methods. Albino Núñez printed a teaching character to him clearly technician, by rejecting plenary session the pernicious memorism and the excessive intellectualism of the time and by introducing the methods of “the School nouvelle" , based the teaching doctrines most recent and on the empirical attempts for its realization. It was the first means of diffusion which made arrive at the schools of the province orensana the teaching novel methods (Montessori, Kerschensteiner, Decroly, Dewey, Cousinet, etc….).

By approving the opposition to the School Bodies of Directors, Núñez Domínguez is transferred to the School complex " Concepción Arenal" of Coruña, where it would continue to develop the school novel methods, by establishing " news fins" education and by directing towards these ends the social work of the school " by psicobiológicos means of adaptation of the comportement". But the civil war truncated its humanistic aspirations when it was director of the above mentioned Center. As from 1936 one devotes to private education, initially in Lugo, and later in Orense, where cover, in 1949, the center of teaching " Estudios Galicia". The great interest of this center was located, especially, in the special attention devoted to the training of teachers whom to their classrooms the novel methods of teaching would then carry while thus connecting with their first stage of director d'" School of Travail" like revealing of the methods of pedagogy advanced in the province of Orense.

In August 1959 he was rehabilitated, initially as teacher and then as school director, by occupying his last destiny in has Estrada (Pontevedra). He is deceased in Orense on February 7th, 1974. The Center of E.G.B of Casardomato (Orense) bears its name on a proposal from the municipal Corporation (1980).

Work to publish

Although most of the work of Albino Núñez Domínguez remains unknown, one can quote interesting work of their use of manager:

• Parnaso Galaico (1956)

• Musa Galega (1957)
• has nosa fala (1958)
• Maruxa or has femineidade (1958)
• Grandezas E miserias da nosa will terra (1959)
• Nin lendas will negras nin historias brancas (1962)
• Toponimia galaica (1965)
• Romance of Castrelo de Miño'