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- Covers period that begins with implementation of positivist-conservative political reform in Colombia known as La Regeneración in 1878 and ends in 1903
- Raises the questions of how and why Panamanian educators developed and promoted discourses of conservatism and moderate liberalism, and to what extent it had an impact on the formation of Panamanian identities
- Examines how the changes in the political and social situation of intellectuals in Panama forced them to become organic intellectuals placing themselves as a pedagogical elite
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book historically reconstructs the conservative and moderate liberals’ views on governance, morality, and education within the context of La Regeneración (1878-1903) in Colombian Panama. de la Guardia Wald explores the way political theories and ideologies, especially conservatism and positivism, shaped late nineteenth-century Panamanian pedagogues’ conceptualizations of proper education for the sake of social regeneration. By demonstrating that Isthmian political and pedagogical debates went beyond the preoccupation for the realisation of classic liberalism and exploitation of Panama’s geographical views, this book challenges the perspective that Panamanian identity was a fabrication of the United States. Instead, this study reveals that the combination of positivist and conservative understandings of morality, reason, and good science defined governmental policies intended to recuperate and enhance civic values and nationalism, leading the way to progress and modernity.
Reviews
—Michael Conniff, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, San José State University, USA
“Rolando de la Guardia Wald has written a fascinating history about the last decades of Colombian Panama during La Regeneración (1878-1903). His book sheds light on the previously-unacknowledged role of conservative thinkers, pedagogues, and politicians in shaping what became the independent nation state of Panama. Their work transforming educational institutions was critical to constructing a “new” Panamanian nation and culture in 1903. This is an essential book for understanding Panamanian and Colombian history, and the history of education in Latin America more broadly.”
—Katherine M. Marino, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Panama, Panama City, Panama
Rolando de la Guardia Wald
About the author
Rolando de la Guardia Wald is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Panama. He is also a member of Panama’s National Research System of the National Secretariat of Science, Technology, and Innovation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education, Conservatism, and the Rise of a Pedagogical Elite in Colombian Panama
Book Subtitle: 1878-1903
Authors: Rolando de la Guardia Wald
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50046-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50045-0Published: 10 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50046-7Published: 09 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 179
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Education, World History, Global and Transnational History, International and Comparative Education, Global/International Culture