Guatemalan University Students and their Social Projection: The People’s University (1923-1932)

Authors

  • Leticia González Sandoval Docente de la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Rafael Landívar (Guatemala)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.38.2021.2814

Keywords:

popular education, Generation of 1920 (Guatemala), adult education, People’s Universities, student movement, Guatemala

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to understand the creation and functioning of the People’s University in its first decade of existence. The fall of the government of Manuel Estrada Cabrera contributed to the consolidation of a group of university students, who inspired by the University Reform of Córdoba (Argentina) and the thinking of José Vasconcelos, proposed a policy of "mass education" that linked the university with the people, especially with its urban working class. The experience was not entirely successful because the idealism of the students collided with the prevailing sociopolitical conditions.

Author Biography

Leticia González Sandoval, Docente de la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Rafael Landívar (Guatemala)

La autora es Doctora en Historia por la Universidad Pablo de Olavide (España). Entre sus publicaciones tenemos: “Entre la moralidad y el interés fiscal: el estanco de aguardiente en el periodo conservador”, en Repensando Guatemala en la época de Rafael Carrera: el país, el hombre, y las coordenadas de su tiempo, Coord. Brian Connaughton, México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Ixtapalapa y Gedisa, 2015. Entre sus temas de interés se encuentran Historia de la educación, Historia agraria, Fiscalidad y estatalidad, Siglo XIX y Construcción del Estado.

How to Cite

González Sandoval, L. . (2021). Guatemalan University Students and their Social Projection: The People’s University (1923-1932). Historia Caribe, 16(38), 137–165. https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.38.2021.2814

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Published

2021-02-26

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