Industrial students, graduates, and professors: notes on the origins of the chilean technical-professional movement in the first third of the twentieth century

Abstract

We address the origins of Chilean technical-professional education and the movement of students, graduates and professors of the School of Arts and Crafts of Santiago formed in the first three decades of the twentieth century. We identified the subjects and groups that, through various strategies, formulated proposals for educational transformation and labor dignity in order to guide industrial development, ideas that were disseminated in newspapers or cultural magazines of the time. Finally, we highlight the main proposals made, inclu­ding the creation of an Industrial University to promote national progress, and we point out different elements in which to deepen future work on the subject.