INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCES ON EDUCATION: IMPERIALISM AND EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA (1943-1963)
Inter-American Education Conferences; History of Education in Latin America; Imperialism; 1943-1963.
This work aims to investigate the Inter-American Education Conferences held between the years 1943 and 1963. The delimitation of the time frame for the occurrence of these meetings, taken as the object of study in this research, has as premise the understanding that the period that covered the 1930s until the beginning of the 1960s was marked by a cycle of US foreign policy for Latin America that used an inter-American rhetoric as a diplomatic strategy that stated that continental relations should be guided by the sovereignty of American countries, cooperation and continental fraternity. It is a historical research, based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of political history, especially from the contributions of the School of the Annales. 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 investigating how the American interests were consolidated in the agreements concluded in these multilateral forums for agreeing educational commitments between the United States of America and Latin American countries.