DILEMAS OF PATRIOTIC EDUCATION AND SOCIAL COHESION. ARGENTINA, BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY

This paper analyses the narratives on social cohesion that crystallized during the first decade of the twentieth century in Argentina. It specifically focuses on the systematic promotion of a patriotic education at schools, an experiment which implied disagreements and even clashes amongst the different views and ways of conceiving social and cultural action. The most outstanding aspect of the process was that despite the differences, almost all the participants considered a priority to reach a new solidarity pact that would help to redefine the existing social links.