From A to Z
Teaching and learning of reading and writing in Chilean primary schools (1840-1880).

This book contributes to addressing a topic that has not always had the centrality it deserves: the teaching and learning processes experienced in the classroom. It is an approach to the educational phenomenon from cultural history, which aims to understand the objectives sought by education and the mechanisms implemented to achieve them. At the same time, it attempts to empirically measure the concrete conditions in which these ideas sought to be applied and to foresee some of their possible results. The “quality” of this school was not evaluated by standardized test scores or its students“ access to the labor market, but by its capacity to achieve what its leaders expected of it: to ”transform" the population to support the new political project that was the republican state.