The schools of Merlo as a vehicle of the social project of the State between 1932 and 1940

Abstract

The following work tries to establish what was the relationship between the role of schools as spaces for primary socialization and the political regime called neoconservatism, in the district of Merlo between the years 1932 and 1940. The selected period coincides with the restitution of the constitutional regime after the coup d'état of 1930 and ends with the intervention of the province of Buenos Aires in 1940. An attempt is made to establish that there was a relationship between the private and public spheres, while the schools were in charge of guiding the practices. individuals and families through the formation of ideals, a task in which educational institutions were accompanied by the Catholic Church. The training of a new individual was aimed at incorporating the population into the capitalist market as labor, as established by documents of the time, such as the educational reform of 1937. This training was necessary to be able to reverse the heterogeneity of the population. This was evidenced by the appearance of foreigners in the educational communities of the party schools. From the analysis of the sources, it can be said that there was a close coincidence in the educational policies and the political project of the neoconservatives, in the period covered in this research. Some of the sources that were consulted are publications of the time, magazines, letters and official documents of the municipal organisms such as the Honorable Deliberative Council and the School Council.