Abstract

espanolUna acelerada expansion de la matricula escolar en Chile dio lugar a la produccion y circulacion de textos con lecturas juzgadas como apropiadas y edificantes para los jovenes estudiantes, impulsando una dinamica industria editorial. El educador y literato Cesar Bunster, respondiendo a esa demanda, publico en 1933 un libro auxiliar de lecturas titulado El Nino Chileno, objeto de numerosas reimpresiones y tambien reediciones, llegando a ser un referente para la formacion de varias generaciones de chilenos. El libro de Bunster, una suerte de antologia de autores tanto de la literatura universal como latinoamericana y chilena, intento promover un perfil deseable de estudiante que, ademas, se diferencio por genero tras el exito de las primeras ediciones de la obra. Este articulo busca identificar, caracterizar y analizar algunos topicos emocionales presentes en la seleccion de textos que constituyo la estructura de esta publicacion, apreciando cambios y continuidades a traves de algo mas de tres decadas. Se considera que es posible reconocer que comunidades, grupos o estructuras formales como, por ejemplo, el Estado, promueven o desalientan determinadas emociones como marco regulatorio, lo que en su momento Peter y Carol Stearns caracterizaron como «emocionologias» o, lo que mas recientemente y en una perspectiva algo mas critica, William Reddy ha descrito como «regimenes emocionales». En marcos tales como el sistema escolar la induccion de emociones especificas (o el silenciamiento de otras) operaria, entre otros medios, a traves de los textos empleados como complemento al curriculum. EnglishAn accelerated expansion of school enrollment in Chile resulted in the production and circulation of reading texts thought to be suitable and edifying for young students, promoting a dynamic publishing industry. In 1933, educator and writer Cesar Bunster, responding to that demand, published an auxiliary book of readings entitled El Nino Chileno (The Chilean Child), subject of numerous reprints and reissues, becoming a reference point for the formation of several generations of Chileans. Bunster’ book, a sort of anthology of authors of universal as well as Latin American and Chilean literature, was meant to portray a desirable profile of a student. After the success of the first editions of the work, this profile would differ by gender. This article seeks to identify, characterize and analyze some emotional topics in the selection of texts from this publication, appreciating changes and continuities over more than three decades. It enables to discern the way in which communities, groups or formal structures - such as the state - promote or discourage certain emotions, thus exercising a kind of regulatory framework, one which Peter and Carol Stearns characterized as «emocionologies». More recently, and in a more critical perspective, William Reddy has described this as the work of «emotional regimes». In frameworks such as the school system, the induction of specific emotions (or the neglect of others) would operate, inter alia, through texts used as a complement to the curriculum

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