María de Maeztu at the University of Buenos Aires: first trip, cultural mediations and the construction of academic networks

Abstract

In 1926 the eminent pedagogue María de Maeztu arrived to teach a course at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires This trip of the first woman invited by the Spanish Cultural Institution, deserves a study of the content and sources of her course, the reception of her ideas and the network of intellectuals and pedagogues with whom she linked and also she is as an exponent of a transatlantic cultural mediator. In these pages her first contact with University of Buenos Aires will be studied, where years later, in the hard times of exile, she worked at the Didactics Institute until her death, in the summer of 1948 in Mar del Plata.