State departments for the selection and control of school textbooks

Authors

  • María López García Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Author

Keywords:

Publishing Regulation, State Schoolbooks Regulation, Teacher’s Instruction, Schoolbooks Industry

Abstract

The article studies the State Commissions for the regulation of Schoolbooks, instituted in Argentine at the beginning of the 20th-century. The analysis exhibits a gradual liberalization of the prescriptions and a reassignment of decisions to the publishers, as well as the institution of schoolbooks as ineludible tool of the pedagogical methodology throughout that century. The growing of the publishing industry resulted in a displacement of the functions of control and selection of the produced teaching materials from the State on teachers and publishing companies. The bonds between State proposals and market technologies entailed a state validation of the companies’ conveniences; one of its more harmful consequences was their increasing meddling in the pedagogical methodology to implement in the school.

 

Author Biography

  • María López García, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
    María López García es licenciada, profesora en Letras y especialista en Procesos de Lectura y Escritura por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published

2012-02-06

Issue

Section

Original research

How to Cite

State departments for the selection and control of school textbooks. (2012). Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 9(1 [19]). https://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38557