As conferências interamericanas de educação (1943-1963): imperialismo e educação na América Latina

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the Inter-American Conferences of Education held between 1943 and 1963. The delimitation of the time frame for the occurrence of these meetings, taken as the object of study in this research, is based on the premise that the period that covered 1930s until the beginning of the 1960s was marked by a cycle of American imperialist policy towards Latin America that used an inter-american rhetoric as a diplomatic strategy that stated that continental relations should be guided by the sovereignty of American countries, cooperation and continental fraternity. It is a research in the field of the history of education in its interface with the theorical and methodological contributions of political history. We used as sources of this study the official documents of the events, whose analysis will take place in compliance with the announced theoretical-methodological framework and prioritizing investigating how the American interests were sedimented in the agreements celebrated in these multilateral forums for the agreement of educational commitments between the United States of America and Latin American countries.