From the Elitist Oligarchy to the White Coat: Towards Education for All

Abstract

The article develops a theoretical journey about some milestones in the history of Argentine education, starting from the fact that the elite and the oligarchy gave the initial kick to educational developments, despite the fact that they could have sat in the power of education compared to the rest of the classes that did not have access to public education, to end up in an inclusive and equal education. For this purpose, the proposal begins in the elitist oligarchy of Europeanizing education reserved for a few to reach the white overall as a symbol of equality. In this way, the milestone of 1882 of the International Pedagogical Congress is described, where the first steps of an egalitarian education were discussed, for two years later to be consolidated into law (1420). There is no doubt that education is a "structuring", that is to say, it continues in permanent construction and reconstruction because it travels in parallel, all the alternatives of the sociocultural, political and economic evolution of the societies and diverse contexts where it develops, then, what education we build in this 21st century.