Allons enfants de la patrie: el archivo personal de Anunciada Mastelli

Abstract

In history of the education's signature, the paper presents the analysis of the biography of the educator Anunciada Mastelli. We have her files, where an important quantity of leaflets, journalistic articules, propaganda notes, manuscript speeches, trade-union publications, bylaws of educator's unions, minutes of meetings and congresses and notes to the national authorities are conserved. Graduated from the Normal School of Teachers N.4 ®Estanislao S. Zeballos ¼ her file is a testimony of her continuous political experience, developed simultaneously with a constant pedagogic labor (that has not remained documented in the same way). Under the inspiration of the ideas of the new school, she produces an own practice that takes on the existing conditions in the school of her time and, in this way, she links herself with other teachers who share similar pedagogic and political worries. Contemporary of Cossettini, Jesualdo and Iglesias, she shares the opposition to the "normalizer model", but from Announced Mastelli we also have inherited, fundamentally, a file that shows her political and trade-union activity. The documents testify this educator's active tradeunion participation, her actions for the unit of the teacher's claims and her constant preocupation supported by the "reinforcement of the nationality and spirit of argentinity in the school and in the teaching activity".