
Pedagogue and historian
Francisco was born in the city of Parral, the May 24, 1900, the son of Francisco Valenzuela Frías and Sabina.
His primary studies were conducted at the National Institute and the Liceo de Aplicación , where he graduated sixth-year liberal arts 1918. He then studied at the School of Law, University of Chile and at the Pedagogical Institute, where he graduated as a teacher of history and geography.
teach at the National Internship Barros Arana, the Liceo Manuel Barros Burgundy, and as an assistant professor of teaching, until retired in 1953. Belonged to the National Association of Teachers and the Chilean Society of History and Geography. Celebrity Author
manuals and Universal History of Chile, which are being used by Chilean students to this day. Their manuals are works that have a high capacity for synthesis, and preaching the classic story of political and military events. Its popularity was such that even their texts were declared official for the study of the humanities. While textbooks were solid for its time, are now overtaken by events of recent decades, leading to the use of those, was criticized by current teachers.
died in 1977.
Teaching History
Josefina Zoraida Vazquez, Pilar G. Aizpuru, Comps.
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Francisco Frias Valenzuela was among the many authors who helped spread the myth of national decline in the twentieth century, most notably, the influence and projecting his work history and geography teacher trained at the Pedagogical Valenzuela Frías was a teacher in some of the most prestigious public school facilities Santiago, experience coupled with his scholarship and teaching ability, enabled him, in 1933, started the publication of texts of history and geography, both from Chile and general.
Between 1947 and 1949 appeared the four volumes of the History of Chile and later his Manual of the History of Chile. Thanks to these and other works on general history, Francisco Frias Valenzuela became the main promoter of national history and general educational level of the second half of the century. His works, since its inception, has had numerous, successive editions, even after his death in 1977 until today.
His primary studies were conducted at the National Institute and the Liceo de Aplicación , where he graduated sixth-year liberal arts 1918. He then studied at the School of Law, University of Chile and at the Pedagogical Institute, where he graduated as a teacher of history and geography.
teach at the National Internship Barros Arana, the Liceo Manuel Barros Burgundy, and as an assistant professor of teaching, until retired in 1953. Belonged to the National Association of Teachers and the Chilean Society of History and Geography. Celebrity Author
manuals and Universal History of Chile, which are being used by Chilean students to this day. Their manuals are works that have a high capacity for synthesis, and preaching the classic story of political and military events. Its popularity was such that even their texts were declared official for the study of the humanities. While textbooks were solid for its time, are now overtaken by events of recent decades, leading to the use of those, was criticized by current teachers.
died in 1977.
Teaching History
Josefina Zoraida Vazquez, Pilar G. Aizpuru, Comps.
http://www.educoea.org/Portal/bdigital/contenido/interamer/interamer_29/artc6/mito.aspx?culture=pt&tabindex=72&childindex=74
Francisco Frias Valenzuela was among the many authors who helped spread the myth of national decline in the twentieth century, most notably, the influence and projecting his work history and geography teacher trained at the Pedagogical Valenzuela Frías was a teacher in some of the most prestigious public school facilities Santiago, experience coupled with his scholarship and teaching ability, enabled him, in 1933, started the publication of texts of history and geography, both from Chile and general.
Between 1947 and 1949 appeared the four volumes of the History of Chile and later his Manual of the History of Chile. Thanks to these and other works on general history, Francisco Frias Valenzuela became the main promoter of national history and general educational level of the second half of the century. His works, since its inception, has had numerous, successive editions, even after his death in 1977 until today.
The History of Chile was aimed, in the words of its author, "put to the public the current state of research and interpretation of national history," reporting "on the problems of our evolution to those who can not drink the knowledge of our past in the already abundant historical literature Chilean. " It was only "a brief historical essay", which addressed "fundamental problems separately, without neglecting the entanglement that must necessarily have existed between them" (Valenzuela Frias, Volume I, 5).