Abstract

FIORUCCI, Flavia. Política, género y formación: las críticas al normalismo en su período de expansión (1884-1920). Bol. Inst. Hist. Argent. Am. Dr. Emilio Ravignani [online]. 2022, n.56, pp.1-31. ISSN 0524-9767.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34096/bol.rav.n56.10876.

This article analyses a series of debates that took place in Argentina on the topic of normal schools during the period between 1884 and 1920. In those years, normal schools multiplied throughout the national territory and this nourished a public debate on the characteristics of this process. The article focuses on the speeches of intellectuals and civil servants who in most cases were related to the management of schools. The essay aims to show that the figure of the schoolteacher was built in Argentina as a professional occupation in the background of a series of highly critical discourses that expressed doubts about the quality of schoolteachers in the country. The text focuses on three aspects of the criticisms made to normal schools: the influence of politics, the training provided and the female profile adopted by both the normal school population and the practicing teachers. Through the analysis of these three critiques, the work aims to contribute to an understanding of the representations that were woven around the figure of the schoolteacher.

Keywords : Normal Schools; Teaching professionalization; Teaching; Feminization; Intellectuals.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )