From "totally or very uncultured” to "very knowledgeable". Academic and institutional transformations at the Universidad Obrera Nacional during the post-Peronist period (1955-1959)

Abstract

The following paper aims to present the academic transformations that took place at the Universidad Obrera Nacional during the period that followed the overthrow of Peronism by the self-styled "Revolución Libertadora" in 1955. To do so, the authors seek to establish what were the premises that guided these transformations in the framework of the -so-called by the actors- "struggle for autonomy and hierarchization" of the university in the post-Peronist political context and what was the origin of these transformations. Based on the thematic approach proposed in this study, this task will be carried out by means of the documentary analysis or "documentation" of various written sources such as the press, parliamentary documentation and institutional documentation, both edited and unpublished.