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This work proposes rebuilding aspects of the establishment and development of schools in the town of Macachin and, in this process try to recover the social traits of that process understanding that it can be representative of the particularities that the construction of the educational system assumed in the Pampa Central. The extract of the last two decades corresponds to the "foundational period" of the educational system in the Territory, at the end of which the educational institutions obtain a relatively stable functioning. Methodologically speaking, the small scale approach is the option chosen; in the attempt to recover particular situations, ways in which individuals and groups produce the social work through adaptation and conflict relationships. This work retrieves some of the strategies that the local social subjects develop to satisfy the educational needs in a time when the state presence did not exercise an effective control, outstanding characteristics of a "frontier area" as the one analyzed. The sources used are: journalistic publications, inspection reports, historical books, pupils reports, official certificates of the two exciting schools in the town at the beginnings of XX century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to show the political ideological conceptions held by the public education policies in the province of La Pampa between 1984-1996. This period of time is the one beginning with the restoration of democracy and ending with the sanction of the Provincial Law of Education. The eighties were characterized by the reestablishment of institutional order and the attempt to design and establish policies based on the State of Welfare conception. During this period, the search for agreement with the provincial government and the teachers was mediated by the teacher's trade union which obtained historically claimed rights and labour achievements. In the nineties, neoliberal policies and the demands from international organizations give origin to deep changes in the educational system of La Pampa. The trend towards decentralization and the State reform policy account for the structural change implied by a new relationship between State and society. New strategies in the search for support appear; trade unions are no longer the privileged speakers; they have been shifted by the euphemism of «community participation» This analysis tries to trace in the official political discourse evidence of the above mentioned change in the idea of the role of the State in educational matters on the one hand, an on the other, the change in the strategies searching for support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]