Victor 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 his teaching career as a teacher at various secondary schools in the province of San Juan. His broad research interests made ​​him receptive to modern educational concepts. In Scripture Museos escolares argentinos y la escuela moderna he staked out the objectives of modern education for Argentina. Beginning of the 1900s appeared the influence of the French educational theory work Metodologia

On behalf of Joaquín González Victor Mercante organized after 1905 the construction of the Pedagogical Section at the Universidad de La Plata. He was then Inspector General for normal, secondary and special schools by the Ministry of Justice and Education, and prepared with the Secretary Carlos Saavedra Lamas presented a draft for the reform of secondary schools in Argentina. This was rejected in Parliament, but was reflected in Mercantes font La crisis de la pubertad y sus consecuencias pedagogicas (1918).

1920 Mercante left the public service, but wrote more education theoretical writings and a series of articles for the Archivos de Ciencias y PEDAGOGIA Afines. In addition, he also emerged as a playwright and wrote the libretto for Ernesto Dran Gosch's opera El carnaval. He died in 1934 on his way back from the Congreso Internacional de Educación in Chile.

Writings

  • Museos escolares argentinos y la escuela moderna, 1893
  • La educacion 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 ), lyrical drama in four acts, 1918
  • El carnaval: opera bufa en dos momentos y un Entreacto, 1922.
  • Lin Calel, lyric tragedy in one act, 1924

Swell

  • Nueva Alejandria - Maestros Americanos - Víctor Mercante
  • Yaqle University - yufind - Library items by Víctor Mercante
  • Portal Educativo de la Provincia de Mendoza - efemérides - Setiembre
  • Author
  • Teacher ( 20th century)
  • Drama
  • Libretto
  • Argentine literature
  • Born 1870
  • Died in 1934
  • Man
Merlo (Buenos Aires)
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