Pedagogy and Psychology Articles

In the words of Cristián Cox: “We don't associate Father Hurtado with education. This is a paradox considering he was one of the first doctorates in education in the country and that from the late 1930s he presented a well-founded and radical critique, as well as a proposal for renewal, of the schemes that governed the educational thought and practices of his time. He had education “very much in sight” for a significant part of his life. We are very far from a basic education system that left 40 percent of the country's children outside its classrooms, and from the Pedagogy School of the 1940s, which trained teachers only for Catholic secondary schools. Another world, and yet, from so many points of view, the same dilemmas and questions.”.