El viaje americano de Adolphe Ferrière de 1930: transferencias y apropiaciones en la circulación de las pedagogías renovadoras entre Europa y América Latina. Un caso para (re)pensar las relaciones centro-periferia

FRECHTEL, IGNACIO

History of Education and Children Literature

Edizioni Università di Macerata, Italy

Año: 2021 vol. 16 p. 281 - 299

1971-1093

In 1930 Adolphe Ferrière traveled through Latin America on behalf of theNew Education Fellowship to spread ideas and to gather information about Latin Americaneducation experiences. He also sought to get a position in the European pedagogicaldebate. Ferrière published his travel experiences in his work La escuela activa en AméricaLatina. From conceptual frameworks, such as global history and cultural transference,travel experiences as sources acquire a particular significance. In those narrations, thereare elements which cover a series of central topics for the pedagogical ideas history both inEurope and in Latin America, such as those ideas circulation, the pedagogues travels and therelations between center and periphery.