Children of popular sectors and school of popular sector: a study about difficulties of the process of schooling in Chile (1840-1860)

Abstract

This article, first, thinks about the ideal of a nation in construction by studying its primary schools. Second, the role of school´s visitors is studied, and later, by analyzing the reports that these wrote, the difficulties of the process of education are exposed –which we divide in social and academic-, considering permanently the practices and attitudes of the children of the popular sectors.