Nature in school food education; Argentine, 1936-1961

Abstract

School body education applied in the Argentine educational system used different strategies.One of these strategies was the alimentary education that, basing on the New School, pursued the change of habits, customs and the transformation of “natures”. From the analysis of the Programs for primary school in that period and the copies of The Monitor of Common Education between the years 1936 and 1961, contradictory senses attributed to the nature in which scientific-medical and religious-moral arguments base gender roles and urban and rural labor profiles emerge.