Rhetoric and the collective action repertoires on Cordoba student movement of the first half of the 1920s

Abstract

On the first half of the twenties important students conflicts it happened in the UNC. These conflicts were strongly related with outstanding problem on 1918 reform. Students demanded to introduce a lecturer selection system, free teacher education and study attendance, a democratic university government. New elements in these years were: the student rights to participate on the university government proclamation, institution autonomy defense and social university function. Young people thought of themselves as a social, political and cultural change that society needed. The collective action repertoires to developed on three lines: the strike, as pressure tool; the meetings, for to legitimate decision taken by representative students organization, like Federacion Universitaria, and students centers; and to hold a meetings, public huge reunion to play a force demonstration and unity of students movement function.

All this aspects conjugated in order to fight for reform proposals that to revolve around to modernize of UNC, already demanded in 1918.