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Antonia Saez
She was born Antonia Saez. May 10th in
Humacao, Puerto Rico in 1889 and she passed away June 23rd in Tokyo, Japan in
1964.
She finalized her secondary studies in her original town of Humacao as a teacher
in 1908. From there on, she dedicated her life to teaching. She exerted the
teaching there. She was a professor of Commercial Spanish in the Centro Superior
School in Santurce, while she continued to studies in Pedagogia until completing
her baccalaureate degree in 1928 and her Masters in Arts in 1930, after
presenting and displaying her thesis "The Theater in Puerto Rico. The Spanish
government granted her a scholarship and she continued to studies in Madrid. She
obtained the Doctorate in Philosophy and letters.
She return to Puerto Rico and occupied the chair of methodology of the Spanish
Faculty of Pedagogia of the University of Puerto Rico. She collaborated
occasionally in several cultural magazines, with tests of literary critics, and
published a series of books specialized in her academic area:"Las artes del
lenguaje en la escuela elemental"/"The Arts of the Language in the Elementary
School"(1944), "La lectura, arte del leguaje"/"The Reading, art of the Language"(1948),
both honored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Literature. she also published "El
curriculo de la Escula Elemental: La Enseñanza del Vernaculo"/"Curriculum
of the Elementary School: the Education of Vernaculo"(1951), "Las artes
del Lenguaje en la Escuela Secundria"/ "The Art of the Language in the
Secondary School"(1952) and "Fundamentos Esenciales de la Enseñanza del
Español"/"Essential Foundations of the Education of Spaish"(1959).
In 1964, she undertook a trip around the world, that she did not get to
complete. She passed away unexpectedly in the capitol of japan. Three years
later, A book of her memories appeared "Caminos del Recuerdo"/"Walking
Memory"(1967).
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