Exiles, conflicts and sensibility. Pedro Henriquez Ureña and education for peace in Argentina 1920s-1940s.

MYRIAM SOUTHWELL

Londres

Congreso; International Standard Conference on History of Education; 2014

Institute of Education - University of London

Exile, conflicts and sensibility. Pedro Henriquez Ureña and education forpeace in Argentina during 1930-1940 The process of cultural and political transformation in Argentina in the middle of the 20th century was influenced by the cultural climate of First and Second World Wars. It also was influenced by Latin American political conflicts and theirlinks with educational renewal.Prominent intellectuals went to Argentina because of their exile and actively participated in educational debates about educational changes. Dominican intellectual Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884-1946) contributed with a richperspective about Latin American autonomous identity, social conflicts and peace. His ideas were especially fruitful in secondary school, linking peace and conflicts with aesthetic education and sensibility in order to develop democratic culture. This presentation will focus on the influence of Henriquez Ureña?s ideas in educational proposals for developing democratic tendencies during the decades of the 1930s and 1940s.