Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara (Oct 2018)

MEANING OF THE 1918 UNIVERSITY REFORM IN ARGENTINA

  • Ricardo Ramón Romero

DOI
https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v3.2.47
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 55 – 73

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This article shows how the ideals of Democracy, Republicanism, Socialism or Liberalism take social body in modernity as well as how reformist principles find in university students a social subject that upholds such principles. The students rebellion that caused the events in Córdoba was the convergence of an Argentina that was entering the modern world and a university refusing to change. The movement did not exhaust within the Argentine University of Córdoba but it expanded to build a political program proposing a new university to construct a new society. Undoubtedly, reformism became an identity and a utopia of alternative thinking in Latin America.

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