High school student experiences during the 60s in Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

This article presents progress of a research project that addresses student experiences within the framework of the transformations of schooling processes in secondary school in Córdoba, Argentina, from the mid-20th century to the present. Particularly, the decade of the 60s will be addressed to analyze, within the framework of the strong increase in school enrollment, the experiences of young students from
a secondary school in a residential area of the city. From a historical-cultural perspective, we approach school as a meeting space for subjects with heterogeneous paths who manage to forge bonds of friendship and camaraderie that reflect a novel, mixed and relaxed sociability, which the people interviewed remember as joyful, festive, fun. At the same time, and in the heat of nodal political events such as the coup d’état of 1966, the death of Che Guevara and the Cordobazo, a student experience was generated that produced a youthful subjectivity, of a militant political nature, from discursive appropriations of the moment and dynamics of relationships between peers with two central components: politics and gender.