@article{a1f239d75f5144c39623bf2eeb9d81ab,
title = "Enlightenment, education, and the republican project: Chile's Instituto Nacional (1810-1830)",
abstract = "This article analyses the establishment of the Instituto Nacional de Chile between 1810 and 1830 as a crucial element of a political and cultural project advanced from an enlightened and republican elite. Its early inception in 1813 resulted from the necessity of consolidating a republican order, as shown by the different projects between 1810 and 1813. During its first years, a revolutionary rhetoric emphasising discontinuities with the colonial past prevailed. Yet, after the consolidation of independence, institutional and intellectual links to the inherited Catholic tradition heavily affected the definite shape of the Instituto. In this context, the negotiations with the Catholic church and the role played by the moderate Juan Ega{\~n}a explain the fact that the model of republic related to the Instituto in its first decades focused on virtue and morality.",
keywords = "Chile, Elite education, Enlightenment, Independence, Republicanism",
author = "Ruz, {Andr{\'e}s Baeza}",
note = "Funding Information: 31Camilo Henr{\'i}quez, “Plan de organizaci{\'o}n del Instituto Nacional de Chile, escuela central y normal para la difusi{\'o}n y adelantamiento de los conocimientos {\'u}tiles,” Aurora de Chile 19 (June 18, 1812): 1. 32“Himno del Instituto Nacional,” http://www.comunidadinstitutana.cl/instituto/resena/ simbolos-institutanos (accessed June 17, 2010). 33Among the most renowned for their political participation were Diego Portales, Minister between 1830 and 1837, and Manuel Bulnes, President of the republic between 1841 and 1851. 34“Decreto de Clausura del Instituto Nacional,” in Colecci{\'o}n de historiadores y documentos relativos a la independencia de Chile, vol. 35 (Santiago: Imprenta Cultura, 1950), 144. 35Correspondence cited in Amun{\'a}tegui Solar, Los primeros a{\~n}os, 183–92. Funding Information: 14Among their relevant works, see Feij{\'o}o, Theatro cr{\'i}tico universal, o discursos varios en todo g{\'e}nero de materias para desenga{\~n}o de errores comunes, vol. V (Madrid: Blas Rom{\'a}n Impresor de la Real Academia del Derecho Espa{\~n}ol y P{\'u}blico, 1781); Campomanes, Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular (Madrid: Imprenta de don Antonio de Sancha, 1774); Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Tratado te{\'o}rico-pr{\'a}ctico de ense{\~n}anza con aplicaci{\'o}n {\'a} las escuelas y colegios de ni{\~n}os (Madrid: Imprenta de Le{\'o}n Amarita, 1831), original from 1802; Olavide, “Plan de estudios para la Universidad de Sevilla, 1768,” reprinted in Juan Marchena, ed., El tiempo ilustrado de Pablo de Olavide: Vida, obra y sue{\~n}os de un americano en la Espa{\~n}a del siglo XVIII (Sevilla: Ediciones Alfar, 2001), 121–227.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1080/00309230.2010.495077",
language = "English",
volume = "46",
pages = "479--493",
journal = "Paedagogica Historica",
issn = "0030-9230",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "4",
}