Teacher, rural workers and school dropout in Unzúe (Bolívar, Provincia de Buenos Aires, 1914)

Abstract

This article is part of a line of research that seeks to explain, through specific cases, how the relationship between the Láinez schools and the local communities was established. The aim of this study is to explain the 1914 conflict between agricultural workers in Unzué (Bolívar, Province of Buenos Aires) and the director of Escuela Láinez Nº 101. With the analysis of a summary source from the Archivo Intermedio de la Nación and documents kept in the Municipal Archive of Bolívar, we proceed with a qualitative approach based on microhistory. Our hypothesis is that the relationships maintained by the local powers, linked to the possession of land, exercised these power struggles for the control of the school managed by the National Education Council (CNE). We argue that the research is another indication that qualifies the views that suggest this agency as a vertical and centralising body that, thanks to its resources and legitimacy, was predisposed to 'impose' a school project on the country.

Keywords:
school; rural areas; workers; teacher