Francisco Berra and the Posivist Education in Uruguay (1874-1882)

Abstract

The ideas of berra on education, that tended to make reign in the education a rigid naturalistic methodology, exerted their influence on the Argentine education, still before their performancein the scholastic government of the province of Buenos Aires. Through its documentary file it can know the river plate intellectual life in both borders, as well as the world strictly corresponding student and his pedagogical manifestations. In this work, we set out to study its performance in Uruguay between the years 1874 to 1882, whose election is not accidental. This period includes understands the beginning of its pedagogical activity in Uruguay, the elaboration of its main work ("The notes of pedagogia") and its participation in the pedagogical Congress of Buenos Aires in the heat of attack between liberal and clerical and the controversies untied by the advance of the positivismo.