Abstract

MENDEZ, Jorgelina  and  MONTENEGRO, Ana María. State migration policy and public school: mediations from textbooks (Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1853-1955). Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.51, pp.17-39. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org//10.7213/1981-416X.17.051.DS01.

This paper presents an analysis of the interrelations between the state, immigration policies and public school in Argentina (especialy in the city of Buenos Aires) from the perspective of the history of education, using as a document source textbooks from elementary school. Between the constitution of the national state (in 1853) and mid-twentieth century, this to changes in the national and international context is redefined based always within the framework of liberalism. In this transition, strategies regarding the “foreign” change from a model of “open door” to another of “restricted migration” with different connotations. Because of the role assigned to it in this state matrix, public elementary school in Argentina was set up as an effective mediator for building national identity, integrating native and fo reigners children, and their families. Text-books are an interesting analysis tool to observe the treatment of certain school contents as these are developed following guidelines ema nating from the national state and are mediated by educational policies and the publishing market. Precisely the integration of migrant populations as well as migration policies are present in them. From there we can have an approach to the role of the school in its me diation between the national state and families, native and foreign ones, through children.

Keywords : Migration; Migration Policy; Public School; State; History of Education.

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