Education and Peronism: Political and cultural diffusion in the task of religious education inspectors in San Luis

Abstract

His production is a research advance within the framework of the research project:
Normalista teacher training in San Luis. A space from which it has been sought
to make a systematic contribution to the understanding of the particularities
of normalista teacher training in the aforementioned province during the first
Peronism or classical Peronism (Zanatta, 2009).
In this article, we set out to describe and analyze part of the tasks performed
by religious education inspectors in the framework of the relationship between
Peronism and education in the province of San Luis. A nodal aspect if one
considers the search of the aforementioned movement to restore the values linked
to the Catholic nation, a task for which the school, as a powerful state machinery
of control and propaganda, played a fundamental role.
Invested with considerable social prestige and in a deeply Catholic province, the
task of these inspectors became essential for the purposes pursued. Permanently
present at official events in the schools of the province, these inspectors assiduously
attended the schools, exerting a powerful influence on all educational actors.
For this work we survey different documentary sources of a national and
provincial nature in relation to the link between Peronism and education, such
as decrees, circulars, inspection records, institutional historical books and
institutional correspondence notebooks.