Abstract

ORONO, MARIELA. The school in construction of cultural and linguistic borders in Uruguay of the end of the Nineteenth Century. Pág. Educ. [online]. 2016, vol.9, n.1, pp.146-160. ISSN 1688-7468.

. At the end of the nineteenth century, Uruguay began its first period of national construction. School reform of 1877 led by Jose Pedro Varela played a key role in this process. In this paper I study how the school built the cultural and linguistic borders by creating rural schools and the preoccupation for the use of Portuguese in border rural schools, representing it as a threat to nationality. I analyze of pedagogical works and written reports by Varela being National Inspector of Education and other documents of the school reform.  First I present the historical and socio- educational context of the country and the figure of Varela. Then I discuss the place assigned to the language and the school, particularly to rural schools

Keywords : Uruguay; Nineteenth Century; national boundaries; school; language.

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