Víctor Mercante
Víctor Mercante (born February 21, 1870 in Merlo (Buenos Aires) , † September 20, 1934 in Los Andes (Chile) ) was an Argentine educator and writer .
Mercante attended school in his hometown and studied at the Escuela Normal de Paraná . He began teaching as a teacher at various secondary schools in the province of San Juan. His broad scientific interest made him open to modern educational concepts . In the text Museos escolares argentinos y la escuela moderna he set out the goals of a modern school education for Argentina. At the beginning of the 1900s, the work Metodologia , which was influenced by the French educational theory, appeared
On behalf of Joaquín Victor González , Mercante organized the establishment of the Pedagogical Section at the Universidad de La Plata after 1905 . He then became General Inspector for Normal, Secondary and Special Schools at the Ministry of Justice and Education, and worked with Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas to prepare a draft for reforming secondary schools in Argentina. Although this was rejected in parliament, it was reflected in Mercante's work La crisis de la pubertad y sus consecuencias pedagógicas (1918).
In 1920 Mercante left the civil service, but wrote other educational writings and a number of articles for the Archivos de Pedagogía y Ciencias Afines . He also emerged as a dramatist and wrote the libretto for Ernesto Drangosch's opera El Carnaval . He died in 1934 on his way back from the Congreso Internacional de Educación in Chile.
Fonts
- Museos escolares argentinos y la escuela moderna , 1893
- La educación del niño y su instrucción (escuela científica) , 1897
- Procedimientos. Enseñanza de la aritmética. , 1904
- Metodología
- Vida y obra del doctor Florentino Ameghino: contribución a su conocimiento , 1913
- Maestros y educadores. , 1927
- Cultivo y desarrollo de la aptitud matemática del niño
Dramas
- Frenos (parábola del genio) , lyric drama in four acts, 1918
- El carnaval: opera bufa en dos momentos y un entreacto. , 1922
- Lin-calel , lyric tragedy in one act, 1924
- Archivos de Pedagogía y Ciencias Afines
Web links
- Nueva Alejandría - Maestros Americanos - Víctor Mercante ( Memento of December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Víctor Mercante: agent político e intelectual del campo educativo en la Argentina de principios del siglo XX *
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mercante, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine educator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merlo (Buenos Aires) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1934 |
| Place of death | Los Andes (Chile) |