Abstract

GALAK, Eduardo  and  SERRA, María Silvia. Forming a “School of Champions”: Sport, morality, pedagogy and Peronist aesthetics. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2019, vol.35, n.73, pp.49-65.  Epub Jan 25, 2019. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.62765.

“Escuela de Campeones” it’s an Argentine film directed by Ralph Pappier released at the end of 1950, bases its argument on the story of a historical fact: the difficulties experienced by those who wanted to incorporate sports as pedagogical tool. Focused on the life of the Scottish Alejandro Watson Hutton, the film shows his vicissitudes as a school teacher since he arrives to Buenos Aires in 1885, especially on his attempt to teach through modern and renewed didactical methods to an elite and conservative Buenos Aires English High School. In this work it is analyzed “Escuela de Campeones” from three axes: a) the education that proposes, which combines a view of schooling that includes some renovation of pedagogy, with a “modern” educational objective that transcends the walls of schools, b) the postulation of sports as pedagogical resources to transmit moral, civic and social senses, and c) the putting into image of a Peronist aesthetic, which includes from cinematographic resources to particular readings of the present and the past. In short, “Escuela de Campeones” is a work of mass dissemination in which it is possible to read discourses on education that were dominant during the Peronist decade between 1946 and 1955, as well as a particular point of view of what happened about the senses of the schooling in Argentina since the end of the 19th century.

Keywords : Cinema; Sport; Schooling; “Escuela de Campeones”; Peronist aesthetics..

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