The teaching of geography in Colombia. 1825-1869

Abstract

This article proposes a topic of great importance for the history of geographic education in Colombia during the nineteenth century, due to low written production about it and the possibility that states of knowing the process of geography´s institutionalization. The main purpose is to analyze the social, cultural and discursive process of the appearance of the teaching of geography in Colombia during the period 1825 to 1869 and how through this teaching was formed as the geography school knowledge. Methodologically supported in reading from a variety of sources, such as textbooks, handbooks and other documents that are outside of the school, it becomes clear how geography is a science that begins in this space, and subsequently consolidates from the second half of the nineteenth century as a science in the university. These documents will be analyzed as reading practices to achieve glimpse the emergence of the speeches and the relations between knowledge and power. The conclusion of the text points toward that geography in Colombia has a practical existence as external to the school, subsequently institutionalized as school knowledge until its consolidation as a science in the university.