Yolanda Oreamuno: el derecho a pensar

En 1938, al participar en el concurso organizado por el Colegio de Señoritas, Yolanda Oreamuno, con 22 años de edad y en calidad de ex alumna, respondería a la consulta de esa importante institución de educación femenina costarricense: Medios que Ud. sugiere al Colegio para liberar a la mujer costarricense de la frivolidad ambiente. Si bien no obtuvo un primer lugar en el concurso, cuando su respuesta fue publicada por el Editor del Repertorio Americano, Joaquín García Monge, se rebelaría en el escrito y en la personalidad de la autora, una insoslayable posición de crítica al destino previsto para las mujeres en la sociedad patriarcal. Palabras claves: Yolanda Oreamuno, pensamiento femenino, pensamiento feminista. Abstract In 1938, Yolanda Oreamuno, 22 years old, as a graduated woman from the Colegio Superior de Señoritas, took part in an opinion pool contest, organized by that paramount Costa Rican women school. The inquire was: What are the means that you suggest to the School to free Costa Rican women from frivolous influences. Yolanda’s response did not reach any of the contest first places. However, when her writing was published by Joaquín García Monge, Editor of Repertorio Americano, Yolanda’s response would reveal, as well as her personality, her unavoidable critique to the female destiny in patriarchal societies. Key words: Yolanda Oreamuno, female thought, feminist thought.

Algunos avances y proyecciones en el campo de la pedagogía rural

This article explores how Rural Pedagogy has been developed within the “División de Educación Rural (DER)” of the “Centro de Investigación y Docencia en Educación (CIDE)” at the “Universidad Nacional”. In order to emphasize recent advancements, pedagogical activities are organized in two different moments, taking into account its characteristics, strengths and weaknesses. Even though, the way rural pedagogy has been done at Division’s history is described in detail, the main interest is to accentuate how this allows a quantum shift towards new horizons in rural pedagogy inside the DER. The article concludes providing some thoughts concerning the factors that will probably decide the destiny of Rural Pedagogy nationally and in Central America.