Visit the past to think about the present: the Peruvian Educational Reform through the pedagogical discourse of Augusto Salazar Bondy

Abstract

The Peruvian Educational Reform that was projected during the government of the nationalist general Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968 to 1975) had in the Peruvian philosopher Augusto Salazar Bondy, his main promoter and spokesperson. In the article we intend, from a critical analysis, to outline the political and social context; deepen the main axes, objectives and goals and develop the structure of the reformist education system through the discourse of the philosopher. The scope of the Reformation, both in its foundations and in its formal aspects, makes it one of the most notable projected in Latin America during the twentieth century. For its part, Salazar leaves us as a legacy a theoretical-programmatic work that is a true and fundamental contribution in terms of Latin American pedagogical thinking. The purpose of putting these elements in dialogue configures the possibility of making critical readings of pedagogical experiences as sources for thinking about the present and projecting the future.