Reforma educativa, formación de sujeto y mundo público urbano, Bogotá-1930-1946

Abstract

This research entitled "Educational reform, training of subject and world public urban- Bogotá 1930-1946" explored the constitution of the educational system in the Colombian capital from a historical and social perspective, and from notions such as subject and discourse, which allowed evidence changes, adjustments based on the specific needs of hegemonic power and transit between docility, productivity and modernization; standardization of curricula created from the place occupied by the student within the social ladder and training that contributed to the social division of labor according to economic stratum was also investigated. This dissertation used a structuralist methodology that relied on documents such as educational policies enacted in the transition period between the conservative hegemony and the liberal project, where the ideal conditions for the growth of the capitalist model were established, the modernization of labor and state control of education in Bogota. In this process domain of education, which in the nineteenth century was in the hands of the Catholic Church, he began the transition to nationalization as reproductive strategy of the liberal model, through the creation of the Ministry of National Education. Thus, the state assumed a new social role as a regulator of social relations. However, the change process required to enact policies that probably could not be carried out; for example, it said that education was compulsory but students thronged futilely asking for a quota outside a school. Or in other cases, health advocated in schools but they only had a sink and a toilet for fifty students. In conclusion, although a change was needed in education to meet the misery in which the country found itself, this process was slow and exclusionary because it intensified the social division of classes by creating trade schools for southerners and universities for the children of officials and political and economic elites.