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In this article we will analyze, firstly, the ideas on totalitarianism held by a group of Catholic traditionalists who served between the decades of 1960 and 1980 and who recognized themselves as experts in educational and University issues. Secondly, we will describe what kind of school they defended and who were considered the main adversaries to the model proposed. We will depart from the study of the book by Antonio Caponnetto called Pedagogía y Educación published during the last dictatorship (1981) and we will show how Caponnetto and other traditionalists criticized the main topics about the new pedagogy, the educator Paulo Freire, the referents of UNESCO and the psychology of Jean Piaget. In the last part of this paper, we will present the diagnosis they made about education and more specifically about the elementary level and the teaching of courses in high school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the 19th century, in the context of setting up the new republican order, the humanization of physical punishments was promoted. As part of a cultural climate affected by the individualization of the body, modern educational trends questioned the excessive punishment of children. This paper discusses the reviews of such disciplinary practices in Buenos Aires elementary schools and its countryside, with the aim of reflecting on how this "civilized awareness" process struggled for a punishment economy to design--at the end of the century--a new ethical code of honor and virtue based on self-discipline as the kind of behavior that should be adopted by future citizens of the republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze primary education policy during the administration of the self-proclaimed "Liberating Revolution". The few studies that have examined this issue state that the Liberating Revolution government erased the traces that Peronism had left in the education system. Our interest is to review this process. To do this, we analyze the conflicts within the government, the institutional design of education governance and internal organization of schools. We ask whether despite the ideological and political ruptures, it is possible to find elements of continuity with the previous period. Our empirical observation area is the province of Buenos Aires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the official proposal for recent history teaching. For such purpose, we draw on national education laws (1993 and 2006), the curricula approved from 1995 to present for the secondary level (at the national level and at the Province of Buenos Aires) and regulations of the commemorations--especially March 24th and September 16th--. This analysis will be made in relation to the representations of memory and the progress of historiography about recent past, to consider up to what extent school contents have witnessed an impact due to changes in these narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze "Information and Communication Technologies for Young Mapuche People" and the context in which they emerged, related with the International Summits on the Society of Information and how it relates with ethnic identity construction processes. We discuss the concept of cultural authenticity, the new relationship between indigenous peoples and the academic world, and the anthropologist's role in applied social projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the views that mostly prevail in History textbooks concerning Latin America in the period between 1980 and 2000, with the purpose of recognizing continuities and breaches in the formulation of historical curricula contents. Such perspective seeks to study pre-eminent discourses about these issues related with the conformation of Latin American nationalities and the ideas that these stories imply concerning the citizens' education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]