THE HISTELEA PROJECT1: THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE TEACHING OF READING AND WRITING IN ARGENTINA

Abstract

This paper reflects the preliminary results of the HISTELEA project ‐The Social History of the Teaching of Reading and Writing in Argentina ‐, carried out by the Social History of Education research group, at the National University of Luján, Argentina. Our approach within a sodai history of education implies understanding and analyzing complex social, political, economic and cultural processes that are articulated in the discourses and practices of the teaching of reading and writing in Argentina. From this perspective, we analyse its potential to better understand the following issues: the construction of the concept of “reading & writing,"the school‐literacy relationship, the constitution of tbe pedagogicfield, and the making of school texts. 1 This project is incorporated into the MANES project (School Textbooks) directed by Dr. Manuel de Puelles Benitez; through MANES, the HISTELEA project is associated with the Banca EMMANUELLE of INRP (France). This association became possible at the seminar coordinated by Dr. Gabriela Ossenbach‐Sauter, at UNED Madrid, in September, 1996, entitled “School Textbooks as a Source for the History of Education in Latin America”.