Resumen

GONZALEZ-SANDOVAL, LETICIA. Guatemalan University Students and their Social Projection: The People's University (1923-1932). Hist. Caribe [online]. 2021, vol.16, n.38, pp.137-165.  Epub 18-Mayo-2022. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.38.2021.2814.

The purpose of the article is to understand the creation and functioning of the People's University in its first decade of existence. The fall of the government of Manuel Estrada Cabrera contributed to the consolidation of a group of university students, who inspired by the University Reform of Córdoba (Argentina) and the thinking of José Vasconcelos, proposed a policy of "mass education" that linked the university with the people, especially with its urban working class. The experience was not entirely successful because the idealism of the students collided with the prevailing sociopolitical conditions.

Palabras clave : popular education; Generation of 1920 (Guatemala); adult education; People's Universities; student movement; Guatemala.

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