Asociación Socio-Educativa Antonio Gandoy

The Asociación Socio-Educativa Antonio Gandoy is a non-profit socio-educational entity based in Galicia, Spain. It was constituted in 2013 by a group of workers linked to the earlier programme Preescolar na Casa, after the programme's main supporting institution, the Xunta de Galicia, cancelled its funding. The association was named after Antonio Gandoy, who had founded Preescolar na Casa in 1977, and it set out to continue attending to the needs of rural families raising children in the years before compulsory schooling. The association's mission is to promote an education that enables people to understand reality, intervene in it, and live in harmony with themselves, with others, and with nature. It gives particular relevance to the family in the first years of life and assumes a commitment to the language, culture, surroundings, and knowledge of young children as references for personality development, especially from ages 0 to 3. Its activities include organising and inventorying the material produced by Preescolar na Casa so that it can be made available to people interested in knowing, studying, or using it; designing programmes and resources for educational intervention aimed at positive parenting; and developing activities for families and society to improve the education of young children. Among its flagship programmes are the Espazos das Familias (Family Spaces), weekly seminars offering training for mothers and fathers with children aged 0 to 3 to strengthen parenting competences; O son que me arrola (The Sound That Lulls Me), a musical proposal bringing traditional Galician oral culture through lullabies, rhymes, and music to families with children aged 0 to 6; and the Festa xogueteira, family play days for parents with children aged 0 to 3 through structured learning in spaces for construction, motor skills, music, art, coordination, and manipulation. The association carries out its activities thanks to contributions and collaboration from various entities and individuals. People can contribute as full members, protecting members, and volunteers. Among collaborating institutions are provincial councils (deputacións), municipalities, associations, libraries, foundations, and rural development centres. Its objectives maintain basically the working line of Preescolar na Casa, and include promoting a culture of childhood, fostering preventive and formative activities for positive parenting, managing knowledge about childhood and family, promoting socio-educational care services for children and/or families in rural areas, dispersed populations, and especially vulnerable family environments, and fostering the study, conservation, and dissemination of traditional Galician culture and the use and promotion of the Galician language.

The Asociación Socio-Educativa Antonio Gandoy is a non-profit entity that continued the work of Preescolar na Casa in 2013, after the cancellation of funding by the programme's main supporting institution, the Xunta de Galicia. A group of workers linked to the previous programme decided to constitute the association in order to continue attending to the needs of rural families raising children in the years before compulsory schooling. They chose the name (Antonio Gandoy) because he was the founder of the previous project in 1977. The association's objectives maintain basically the working line of Preescolar na Casa. It promotes an education that capacitates the person to understand reality, intervene in it, and live in harmony with themselves, with others, and with nature. It disseminates a culture of childhood, its needs, potentialities, and rights in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted and ratified by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989. It fosters the education of childhood through preventive and formative activities that promote the exercise of positive parenting, fosters the management of knowledge about childhood and family, and promotes the creation of socio-educational care services for children and/or families from different groups, from the rural sphere, dispersed population, and family environments of special vulnerability, in order to promote equality of opportunities and the reconciliation of family and working life. It also fosters the study, conservation, and dissemination of traditional Galician culture as well as the use and promotion of the Galician language, fosters relations with public and/or private entities in aspects that affect the development and well-being of childhood and family, and promotes volunteer programmes for the development of the actions carried out. In terms of activities, the association carries out a series of tasks such as the organisation and inventory of the material produced by Preescolar na Casa to make it available to people interested in knowing, studying, or using it; the design of programmes and resources for educational intervention aimed at positive parenting; and the development of activities oriented towards families and society for the improvement of the education of young children. These include Espazos das Familias, seminars offering training for mothers and fathers with children aged 0 to 3 in order to reinforce parental competences and respond to the different needs of childhood; O son que me arrola, a musical proposal to bring traditional Galician oral culture through lullabies, rhymes, and music to families with children aged 0 to 6; and Festa xogueteira, family play days for mothers and fathers with young children aged 0 to 3 through structured learning in spaces of construction, motor skills, music, art, coordination, manipulation, etc. The association carries out its activities thanks to the contributions and collaboration of various entities and individuals. People can contribute as full members, protecting members, and volunteers. Among collaborating institutions, there are provincial councils, municipalities, associations, libraries, foundations, and rural development centres. The association maintains an active online presence through its blog, where it publishes news about its activities, such as the start of the new course with Espazos das Familias in various municipalities, the visit of O Son que me arroupa to the CAM de Pol, and the Festa Xogueteira.

• 2026

  The association continues running Espazos das Familias in various municipalities and holds activities such as O Son que me arroupa and Festa Xogueteira.

• 2013

  Asociación Socio-Educativa Antonio Gandoy is constituted by workers linked to Preescolar na Casa after the Xunta de Galicia cancels funding.

• 1977

  Antonio Gandoy founds Preescolar na Casa, the predecessor project.

Non-profit socio-educational association focused on early childhood (0–3), rural families, positive parenting, and Galician language and culture.

• Espazos das Familias

  Weekly seminars offering training for mothers and fathers with children aged 0 to 3 to reinforce parental competences and respond to the different needs of childhood.

• O son que me arrola

  A musical proposal to bring traditional Galician oral culture through lullabies, rhymes, and music to families with children aged 0 to 6.

• Festa xogueteira

  Family play days for mothers and fathers with young children aged 0 to 3 through structured learning in spaces of construction, motor skills, music, art, coordination, manipulation, etc.

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2. 2Asociación Socio-Educativa Antonio Gandoywikidata.org
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