Abstract

GINOCCHIO, Virginia. Alumnos "prolijos, callados y aseados": O las formas en que el Estado prescribió el comportamiento infantil en la configuración de la escuela (1875-1905). Hist. educ. anu. [online]. 2006, vol.7, pp.91-121. ISSN 2313-9277.

This paper is centred on the prescriptions issued by the State as transpires from the analysis of two data sources: the set of educational rules and regulations and the "Revista de Educación" (Educational Magazine). This study about the configuration of our modern school is focused on the time between 1875 and 1905 and is circumscribed to the Province of Buenos Aires. In relation to the school as an institution, the analysis focuses on the prescriptions for pedagogic practice. In particular, what is analysed is the way in which the State conceived children behaviour at the classroom level in relation to body movement, oral and written expression and personal appearance and cleanliness, thereby shaping the "neat, silent and clean students." Finally, this paper aims at contributing with a detailed description of the prescriptions and the general orientation of the "official voice", as it shows that it was precisely its monochord and univocal shape that became a milestone in the shaping of a homogenizing and authoritarian culture which provides relevant analytical elements to understand the upheavals of Argentinean education and society between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

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