The New School in the Normal School of Paraná and its local adaptations (1931-1937)

ABSTRACT

In this article, we will analyze the local adaptations of two experiences that were born in the ideas of the New School, carried out at the primary level of the Normal School of Paraná (province of Entre Ríos). They were implemented first by pedagogue Celia Ortiz A. de Montoya and then by the regent María del Carmen Rodríguez. In the first section, we will present the experience realize by Montoya in 1931 at the School of Application of the Normal of Paraná, and in the second, we will outline the implementation of a version of the Plan Dalton (1932-1936) directed by the regent Rodríguez and the inauguration of the Programs of Asuntos which took place from 1937. We aspire to show, firstly, that both had a broad knowledge of European and North American escolanovistas ideas, which showed that these notions had been circulating in the country for some time, especially through the educational press. Secondly, we will show that both of them made a meticulous task of adapting these notions to the local reality, which led them to identify the distance between the original proposals and the concrete practice, and the role of the State and the necessity of increase the inversion and designed a new normativity.

Keywords:
New Education; Normalism; Argentina; Plan Dalton; Decroly