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This research article expands our understanding of the impact of Spanish Republicans on Dominican education, documenting the schools they established and the processes of sociocultural appropriation of their educational project. The context suggests a historical-educational methodology. This approach involves the critical analysis of primary archival sources (documents, memoirs) and bibliographic references to reconstruct historical events from a pedagogical perspective. The study concludes that the impact of the Spanish exiles was significant, as they created twenty-nine schools in which modern pedagogical methodologies were introduced, along with updated curricula and study plans. Their work was limited both by the brevity of their stay (1939-1945) and by the restrictions imposed by the Trujillo regime. This research contributes to the understanding of this particular moment in Dominican education, while also enriching studies on the diaspora caused by the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime, and its contributions to cultural modernization in the host countries.
