Political Projects and Education Models

Abstract

What does education mean for a society? How did education systems origínate? How do they relate to political projects? What are the characteristics of the Argentine education system? Towards what future is it oriented? Do the different levels of the school system function efficiently? How does teacher training relate to the quality of education? These are complex questions that we will try to answer, in part, with the preparation of this document. This paper is divided into two parts: in the first, we will describe the relationship between the State and education during the 19th century, at the origins of the Argentine school system. Then, the same relationship during the twentieth century, according to the so-called “welfare state”. In the second part, we will describe the educational policy that inspired the current functioning of the Argentine educational system. We want to show how processes that had their antecedent in the international order were reproduced in our country.