Clandestine visions, authoritarian practices, and educational reform in Santa Fe (Argentina, 1966-1973)

• Autores: Natalia García
• Localización: Espacio, Tiempo y Educación, ISSN-e 2340-7263, Vol. 5, Nº. 1, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Dismantling Authoritarianism: Changes in Education across the Transition from the 1960s to 1970s), págs. 159-180
• Idioma: español
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  • This article tries to contribute to the recent history of Argentine education from the novel line of studies based on documents produced by the State intelligence services since the mid 60’s. Specifically, we present a «Special Report» of 1971 by the Central Intelligence (Santa Fe) called «Current situation of teacher’s conflict», in reference to the resisted middle school after the implementation of the Organic Law of Education in the years of the «Argentine Revolution» (1966-1973). Thus, we begin with a description of the local «information community» detailing its missions, resources, performance and agents. Already focused on the selected source, we analyze the clandestine writing showing the hypotheses, prescriptions, assessments and immediate prospective. At the rhythm of the documentary sections, we observe significant efforts to understand the genesis of the conflict in its various dimension (political-ideological, trade-union activism, pedagogical and curricular) including the actions of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Finally, retracted on the authoritarianism period and government persecution, it becomes evident the espionage to actors and institutions syndicated like the «educational subversion», as a prelude to the terrorism of State decidedly activated in 1976.