Memorias colectivas, ideas de provincia y catolicismo en el debate parlamentario de la última ley de educación de Córdoba, Argentina (2010)

Abstract

The goal of this article is to study how collective memories about the past of the Argentinian provinces are mobilized in order to create ideas of provinces that are reflected in educational public policies, particularly in relation to the link between education and religion on public schools. To fulfill this goal, a case study strategy was selected, based on the analysis of the parliamentary debate of the last education law of the province of Córdoba. On this basis, the stenographic versions of the debate in the Legislature were analyzed using content analysis technique, tracing the references of the provincial legislators to the origin and the past of the jurisdiction, to the ideas of province, and to the frame of the relationship between religion and education. This research allowed to conclude that there is a strong relation between collective memories, ideas of province and the relationship between religion and public run education.