Reception and uses gramscian hegemony in the formation of the new left teaching

Abstract

This article deals with an approach on the use and reception of Antonio Gramsci's work in the conformation of the pedagogic new left-wing politics, specifically through the magazine "Revista de Ciencias de la Educación" (RCE) which was published in Argentina from 1970 to 1976, interrupted by the 1976's civilian- military coup. At present, the Sardinian revolutionary's work has a deep influence in social theory, in general, and in critic educational theory in particular. There are many researches in Argentina concerning his work between the 60's and 70's, but the ones studying the pedagogic field are scarce. In this writing we introduce a historiographical discussion with the studies on Gramsci's work reception in the decades of the 60's and 70's that move this theory away from the Althusserian tendency or the ones that consider the union of this work with the French philosopher legacy as a negative absorption. Working on the RCE, we assert that there actually existed a predominantly historicist utilization of Gramscian hegemony, situated simultaneously in, out and at the threshold of the Althusserian theoretical framework, widely spread during the 60's.This article is placed on a vaster ambition that refers to the reconstruction of Gramsci's itinerary on critic educational theory in Argentina from the Cuban Revolution (1959) to the irruption of the last civilian-military dictatorship (1976).