Abstract

SALDARRIAGA, Oscar de Jesus  and  REYES, Rafael Galindo. CLASSIC OR TECHNICAL? SECONDARY SCHOOL IN COLOMBIA, 1903-1956. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.24, e98995.  Epub July 05, 2020. ISSN 2236-3459.  https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-3459/98995.

In Colombia, until 1892 starts the process of shaping a modern national education system-staggered, public and democratic-, crossed by a complex set of tensions, including: between the state and the Church, the private sector and the public sector; the Humanist-elitist and the democratic-diversified conceptions of the baccalaureate; and a tension between central and local elites, for funding, autonomy and uniformity. The state pawned in controlling a hierarchical system. But when more democratizing proposals emerged, both the state and the intellectual elites refused to assume them as a national project.

Keywords : Colombia; baccalaureate; secondary education; public instruction system; unified school.

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