Abstract:
We analyze the educational experience of Acción Cultural Popular, in Colombia in the 1960s. Initiative of the Catholic Church that sought to affect the lives of peasants combining a moralistic religious discourse with aspects of the developmentalist ideology of the period. Considering immoral the idleness, campaigns were developed that extolled the healthy use of time based on responsible recreation practices, modernizing the meaning of work. We focused on four campaigns developed there: Recreation, Domingo Cristiano, Contra el ocio and San Isidro Agricultor. The sources are the newspaper El Campesino, and the correspondence exchanged between ACPO leaders and peasant leaders. We dialogue with the notion of social education and with Edward Thompson to think about the relationship between time, work and moral education.
Keywords:
popular education; social education; Acción Cultural Popular; history of education of sensibilities