The New colombian school: analysis of its learning guides

Abstract

Designed for Colombian peasant population, the school model called New School was designed and structured seeking to meet the education representations and interests of the rurality back then. Given this school model as a reference for analysis, this article aimed to understand its learning guides, considered as the backbone of this rural education program. The research fits into the perspective of Cultural History, with reference to the works of Choppin (2002, 2004), Escolano Benito (2001) and Parra Sandoval (1996). The analysis reveals that the New School Program was set up as a ruralizing pedagogy, in which the rural was presented as a traditional harmonic scenario, free of contradictions and conflicts, the peasant and own space, to silence a perceived rurality as an element of potential subversion; building this way a pragmatic methodology in a curriculum, that adapting to the field in educational terms, content and purpose, it will form a subject willing to work in rural, without questioning the existing social problems.