University reform in El Salvador: social and political context 1963-1980

Abstract

The study of the university in the country and region has become important in the last 50 or 60 years. Since the “Cordobazo” in 1918, debates about public education arose at different times in the 20th century. Therefore, the objective of this article is to present the main contributions of the university reform to higher education in El Salvador during 1963-1968, from the social and institutional history of education proposed by the Colombian professor Reinaldo Rojas, taking as complementary elements, the social and political factors that influenced it.