The Ideal of the Practical is a study of efforts by a segment of
the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter
cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations
toward the technical and the practical. Frank Safford describes
attempts by members of Colombia’s nineteenth-century political
elite to use technical education as a means of nurturing energetic
upper-class entrepreneurs and an industrious working class in a
static agrarian economy. In the course of his analysis, Safford
sketches the historical development of scientific and technical
education and of the engineering profession in Colombia. The book
opens with a description of the economic and social context of
early nineteenth-century Colombia. It then discusses some early
experiments with manual industrial training between 1820 and 1850.
Later chapters deal with the careers of upper-class youths sent
abroad for scientific and technical training, the growth of
indigenous engineering education, and the crystallization of a
Colombian engineering profession. While the book primarily explores
the nineteenth century, it also touches on eighteenth-century
Spanish Bourbon antecedents and provides an epilogue on the
twentieth-century evolution of technical elites in Colombia. The
author focuses on the reasons why the implantation of technical
education and technical orientations proved difficult. He examines
the interplay between various obstructions: on the one hand, a
hierarchical social structure and aristocratic social values and,
on the other, obstructions created by fundamental geographic and
economic conditions. He concludes that, while Colombian leaders had
hoped that technical education and the development of values
oriented toward the technical would spearhead economic growth, in
fact economic growth proved a prerequisite for the effective
implantation of technical orientations and training.
General
| Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series |
| Release date: |
February 2014 |
| First published: |
1976 |
| Authors: |
Frank Safford
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
392 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-292-76949-6 |
| Categories: |
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| LSN: |
0-292-76949-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780292769496 |
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