The Unesco, the universalization of primary education and curricular reforms in latin american literacy (1940-1950)
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Unesco, Primary school, Curricular reforms in literacyAbstract
By correlating a set of primary documentary sources, this article investigates, based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Dialogic Discourse Analysis, how the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in the review of Latin American primary school curricula between the 1940s and 1950s. Starting from an analysis of the effects of the Second World War on the collective imagination of post-war society, as well as the impacts of the scientific and technological development of the second half of the century. XX, seeks to situate how literacy became one of the main promises for the social and economic development of countries that, by agreeing on the postulates coming from Unesco, sought to restructure their curricula so that the triad of “Education”, “Science” and “"culture” ensured not only their development and modernization, but also its commitment to democracy, a first that, ultimately, the reformulation of primary school curricula sought to meet.
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