The inter-American doctrine of secondary education. Influence of international organizations on the 1963 Pilot Plan in Uruguay

Abstract

The story that educational actors have built in Uruguay places the 1963 plan as one of the milestones of
national pedagogical thought. If the program for rural schools of 1949 and the program for urban schools
of 1957 were conceived as “plans prepared by teachers” (Soler, 1984), for teachers this could only happen
in secondary education with the pilot plan of 1963, to the extent that the Teachers’ Assemblies established
by the Teachers’ Statute, had a participation in its preparation (Romano, 2019). However, when we advance
in the analysis of the publication of the book that includes the foundation and the project of Reforma
y plan de estudios 1963, we can identify in the bibliography an important presence of texts produced by
international organizations and consultants that work for these organizations. In this paper we propose
to carry out a reading of the reform trying to identify the influence that international agencies such as
UNESCO and the Pan American Union have on the reform project. Through the analysis of the magazine La Educación, published by the Pan American Union (OAS), the aim is to analyze the change in the meanings of pedagogical terms such as comprehensive training, active education and the relationship between education and society, as part of the action of the international organizations that propose the definition of an inter-American doctrine of secondary education based on educational planning.