In the thirties, the liberal government and the church, of conservative filiation, disputed control in the formation of citizens. In the quest to find ways to influence, vary the social order and transform reality, both instrumentalized education as an appropriate means to model thought from childhood. Chanchito, an illustrated magazine for children (1933-1934), exhibited the Conservative Idea and Rin Rin, a children’s magazine (1935-1939) together with El país de Lilac (1938), a children’s storybook, supported modernizing liberal ideologies. The publications were produced with the purpose of influencing the civic formation from childhood and for the construction of the social role of the child; each knew how to respond to instrumentalist purposes of the discourse promoted by its ideological drivers. From the perspective of S. Jäger (2003), the three publications acquired the character of a device.
Peters Rada, V. E., & Trujillo Acosta, M. (2019). Children’s Publications and their Ideological Load. Liberal Republic of Colombia (1933-1938). RChD: Creación Y Pensamiento, 4(6). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2019.52613