ABSTRACT
It is impossible to disentangle the popular educational process in El Coronil from the historical, social and economic processes which give rise to it. In more practical terms, without understanding something of how olives, sugar beet and cotton are grown and harvested, something of the legacy of the large estates or latifundios which still exist in Andalucia, and something of the tough fighting spirit of the day-labourers and their ‘popular front’, the Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (SOC) or Agricultural Workers’ Syndicate, it would be hard to understand how in certain corners of the rolling Andalucian landscape such a rich selfsufficient culture can exist.
