Abstract

DALBEN, André. Las escuelas al aire libre uruguayas: creación y circulación de saberes. Educ. fís. cienc. [online]. 2019, vol.21, n.2, pp.75-75. ISSN 2314-2561.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24215/23142561e075.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the creation of the first open-air schools in Uruguay and the position taken by the physician Américo Mola in both the national and international circulation of knowledge about these medical-educational institutions. The sources used in this research cover mainly the period between the years 1909 and 1936. The Uruguayan League against Tuberculosis inaugurated the first open-air school in Montevideo in 1913. It operated in collaboration with the School Medical Staff and the General Administration of Primary Education of Uruguay. In the early 1920s, the Uruguayan government created two other open-air schools in the vicinity of the capital. Mola was a key figure for the international promotion of the three Uruguayan open-air schools. In 1922, he assumed the presidency of the International Committee of Open-Air Schools and in 1936 presided the third edition of the International Congress of Open-Air Schools (Bielefeld/Germany). Throughout his career, he established a fruitful network of contacts with South American and European professionals through the American International Institute for Child Protection, in order to promote Uruguayan open-air schools in the international scenario.

Keywords : Outdoor Education; Open-Air Schools; History; Uruguay.

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