La reacción contra emancipadora. El caso de los intelectuales críticos a la renovación pedagógica y la modernización de las ciencias sociales en Argentina y América Latina

Abstract

In this article, we identify the most outstanding productions of Argentine, Spanish and Latin American intellectuals that integrated transnational networks of right wing Catholics and presented them as specialists in education. More specifically, we present the content of his written Works denouncing the pedagogical renewal and modernization of the social sciences that developed between the 1950s and 1960s, in both Argentina and Latin America. In relation to the first question, we analyze the main arguments that were pronounced against the person and the work of the Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire; then, we describe the criticism made to the process of academic modernization that had as its epicenter the University Of Santiago De Chile. Finally, we present the content of a document that was called “Scientific Subversion” through which they showed the way in which social scientists contributed to spread the “revolutionary cancer” in Argentina and Latin America.