Buenos Aires, city of teachers: the Normal Schools of Women and the formation of female professional elite (1874-1940) Abstract

Abstract

The city of Buenos Aires was, around 1940, the district of Argentina that concentrated the largest number of female Normal Schools and graduate teachers. In this article, we will analyze the process of creating the Normal School of Women that took place between 1874 and 1914 in the city of Buenos Aires, focusing on the Normal School nº 1 for Teachers and we will study the trajectories of their graduates until the 1940s. We intend to show how this Normal School has been pointed out by its contemporaries as the most important in the country, recognizing that, within the public system, was formed the most relevant women’s professional elite.