Peronism and job training. Politics and pedagogy in the Schools of Learning in San Luis

Abstract

This work investigates the Schools of Learning in the province of San Luis, seeking to publicize one of the least investigated aspects of educational policies in the first Peronism. Our interest is to approach the understanding and interpretation of the pedagogical implications and the cultural and social singularities that this formation acquired in the local context, within the political framework that the movement imposed on education since the implementation of the Five-Year Plans, from which it was sought to reform the educational system. In this context, partly due to the intention of modifying the historical relationship of subordination of manual knowledge to encyclopedic training, the creation of the National Commission for Professional Learning and Guidance (hereinafter C.N.A.O.P) was promoted, in addition to opening numerous Factory Schools, within the framework of a process on which various interpretations have been made, ranging from integration to discrimination. The interest in understanding its pedagogical foundations lies in the fact that it is an aspect that has hardly been investigated, if we consider the relevance of the proposal, on which there are no productions in the aforementioned province. For this investigation we have the possibility of accessing the unpublished archives of the Directorate of Learning Schools, headed by Professor Guillermo Albornoz, where the magazine "El aprendiz" was produced. This was the body for disseminating the policies of the leadership that functioned until the ecclesiastical-civic-military coup of 1955.