Sarmiento: between Juana Manso and teachers of the U.S. Recovery of forgotten messages

Abstract

This paper proposes to revise aspects of the educational project of Sarmiento, founder of primary education in Argentina. This is sketch some notes beyond their own figure, highlighting the role played -in terms of pedagogical reflection and even experimentation in the classroom- by Juana Manso, one of his closest partners and the American teachers, convened for the opening of schools.

For this purpose characterized aspects of the political scene in which registered the entry of the first teachers in the U.S. for the Nation Argentina, even weakly formed. Within this scenario is to incorporate contributions to the understanding of the struggle for shaping an inclusive school model and strategy of the parent church, exemplified in the opposition to the trajectory of the teacher, subject matter of this analysis.