Olga y Leticia Cossettini: ¿maestras, mujeres, intelectuales?

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Summary

Between the years 1935 and 1950, the school teachers and sisters Olga and Leticia Cossettini carried out an innovating pedagógical experience at the public school ''Dr Gabriel Carrasco'' in the city of Rosario, framed in the movement called ''New Education'' (New School or Active School movement). Even though it has been studied in the area of education, the wide file that documents this experience shows the close relationship these women had with artistic, intellectual and avant-garde sectors of the region and the country. Considering these women belonged to a cultural elite, we formulate the hypothesis that the importance of this experience is not only found in the innovating strength of their ideas. Their position as intellectuals in their time is the key to understand the development of those ideas, their implementation and their diffusion. In this work, we focus on a particular historical event: the publication of the book ''El niño y su expresión'' (The kid and his expression), in 1940. We research what makes this publication possible, what publishing means for a woman and teacher from the interior of the country, in the '30s, which are the groups where this publication appears and what effects these movements produce.

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