Octavio Fullat

Octavio Fullat

Octavi Fullat i Genís (Alforja, Tarragona, 1928) is a Pachapian priest and Spanish philosopher. Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, ​​he met Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, studied with Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault and Jules Vuillemin. From 1970 to 1976 he was responsible for educational research at the Institute of Education Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Since 1986 he is Professor of Philosophy of Education of the same university. He was awarded the Antoni Balmanya Pedagogy Prize for his work "Reflexions on Education"; the Julio Marial Award for his work "Astronautics and the Model of Man" (1968), presented in New York during the XIX Congress of the International Astronautical Federation; Prize Vicens Vives endowed with five million pesetas to investigate (Universitats de Catalunya, 1998). In 1994 he was awarded the Sant Jordi Cross of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1994. He has also been an honorary member of the Catalan Studies Institute since December 1995. Octavi Fullat has taught courses at universities in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, France and Italy. Fullat was an advisor to the Portuguese government for educational research (epistemological field) between 1998 and 2001, and for university evaluations (2002-2003). Since 2006 he has been a member of the Comité d'HNONNEUR of the Société francophone de philosophie de l'éducation (SOFPHIED) with Guy Avanzini, Daniel Hameline, Hubert Hannoun and Georges Snyders. In the Mexican city of Cuernavaca there is a school named Octavi Fullat. On October 16, 2008, he was awarded the Ramon Fuster Prize by the Official College of Doctors and Graduates in Philosophy and Letters and in Sciences of Catalonia.