El The role of the Normal School for Boys in Antioquia at the training of teachers and in the controversy of the State regarding the educational reform proposed by the liberal government of the United States of Colombia (1870-1876)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to show the configuration process of the Normal School for Males in the Estado Soberano de Antioquia between 1870 and 1876, within the framework of the opposition of the conservative government of Pedro Justo Berrío in Antioquia against the secular and centralist educational reform, initiated with the issuance of the Organic Decree of Primary Public Instruction by the national executive power of the Estados Unidos de Colombia. Based on the fact that teacher training was a fundamental objective in both models of educational reform, the article alyzes what pedagogical and ideological characteristics this training had in the Escuela Normal de Antioquia, what were the antecedents of this type of institution in the Estado Soberano, what difficulties were faced for its foundation and the importance given to this establishment and to the instructors it trained in the region.