“…The following decades, in which several authoritarian regimes became institutionalized, namely the Portuguese one, under Salazar, one can point to several conservative and, in some cases, Catholic appropriations of New Education. The slogan "active school", propagated by Adolphe Ferrière, was at that time interpreted locally in a rather different sense (Pintassilgo & Andrade, 2018). The rejection of secularism, self-government, coeducation, the Unified school and internationalism are some of divergences from the previous moment.…”