Education Reforms During Peronism

Shortly after Juan Domingo Perón’s inauguration as constitutional president of Argentina on 4 June 1946, the educational system took central stage in the Peronist administration. One important motivation was to integrate “all levels of education into one system”.[1] A series of reforms, laws, “pedagogic methods,” technical education, ��Peronist’ textbooks, to name a few, were part of the grand scheme to achieve “spiritual unity” and transcend the values of nationalism and religion.[2]


ANALYZE the objectives and reforms implemented on behalf of the educational system that celebrated the values of Peronism and modernization of education.

Length: 750 words maximum – Provide word count
Essay should be typed and double-spaced. Cite all quotations and paraphrases. Writing is NOT a series of continuous quotations. Make it clear to the reader that you read the text carefully.
Write a thesis statement (central argument) in your introduction, then develop the thesis and provide historical evidence (body of your essay), and end with a closing paragraph.
Use Chicago Manual of Style.
Example, Footnote or End note:
Mariano Ben Plotkin, Mañana es San Perón: a Cultural History of Perón’s Argentina (Lanham, MD: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2003), 92.



[1] Mariano Ben Plotkin, Mañana es San Perón: a Cultural History of Perón’s Argentina (Lanham, MD: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2003), 92.

[2] Ibid., 96.