Educational policies of Colombia in the government plans of the XIX century

Abstract

This article is the result of research: Colombian educational policies in the nineteenth century Government Plans; It is a study of historical focus, which aims to analyze and investigate, in Constitutions, laws, norms, decrees and perspectives, the educational policies approved by Colombian jurisprudence in the governments of this period. To do this, it is proposed to know, chronologically, and theoretically examine the government plans that laid the foundations of the Colombian educational system, in a period of ideological polarization between the liberal and conservative political parties. This political context originated nine civil wars, which fueled the poverty of the treasury, and the idea of social progress through education, as an enlightened purpose of a State with an anachronically feudal economy.

A State whose ungovernability, authoritarian control of the party in power and social injustice, did not prevent the low coverage, quality and educational equity, which left the monarchy, and the Spanish Catholic Church after three centuries in the end of the century. power. As a result of this social instability, it should be expected that the government plans, specified in the law, would bear fruit to a modern educational system, with focus on instruction, inspection and administration, with increased efficiency, infrastructure, inclusion, coverage and educational equity, regarding Spanish medieval education; However, the educational reality, still, as until today, was far from being modern and achieving the coverage, quality and educational equity that the slogans in the government plans proclaimed.