Salvadoran public instruction: a historical analysis of its pedagogical foundation between 1900 and 1909

Abstract

PROBLEM: insufficient information about the educational processes created between the years of 1900 to 1909. OBJECTIVE: to know some historical references of Salvadoran public education during the 1900s, taking as a central axis the formal educational processes, which contributed to the significant integral formation of the country's inhabitants. METHOD: the historical method was assumed as an approach, expressed in the review of primary sources (official gazette, speeches by presidents, laws and regulations) and secondary sources (analysis by pedagogues and historians) as discourses gestated in the interpretation of the history of education. public education of El Salvador. RESULTS: the greatest strength of Salvadoran education is its qualification in the integral formation of students, based on a systemic order of instruction, its focus on the qualitative improvement of the country's inhabitants, assuming administrative perspectives of greater firmness of the system. national educational. CONCLUSION: systematic education in the country has a further journey and with a deep contribution in its reconstruction, which is undeniable its educational and cultural heritage in a forgotten decade, but key in the current foundations of the national education system. Its greatest contribution is the qualification of public educational institutions, linked to the coverage and curricular changes developed since 1900.