The Inter-American Education Conferences (1943-1963): Imperialism and Education in Latin America.
Keywords: Inter-American Conferences on Education; History of Education in Latin America; Imperialism; 1943-1963.
The objective of this work is to investigate the Inter-American Education Conferences held between 1943 and 1963. The delimitation of the timeframe for the occurrence of these meetings, taken as an object of study in this research, has as its premise the understanding that the period that covered the The decade from the 1930s to the beginning of the 1960s was marked by a cycle of US imperialist policy towards Latin America that used as a diplomatic strategy an inter-Americanist rhetoric that stated that continental relations should be guided by the sovereignty of American countries, by cooperation and by continental fraternity. It is a research in the field of history of education in its interface with the theoretical and methodological contributions of political history. We used as sources of this study the official documents of the events, whose analysis will take place in compliance with the announced theoretical-methodological framework and prioritizing to investigate how the US interests were sedimented in the agreements celebrated in these multilateral forums of pact of educational commitments between the United States of America and Latin American countries.