HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL

The Normal School Superior Santiago de Tunja, before National Normal School of Men of Tunja, was created according to Law 2 of 1870. It assumed like the first Director the Dr. Ernesto Hotschik that conformed, along with eight educators of high level of preparation, the First German Mission, contracted to technically advise and to organize the Normal Schools of the country in the respective State Capitals.The Normal School Superior Santiago de Tunja initiated its workings the 22 of September of 1872 in the old House of the Tower, today soothes of the Interior de Boyacá, with eight students granted a scholarship by the National Government. The 31 of October of 1873 graduate from the Normal School the first graduated teacher, Demetrio Cifuentes, in the pestalozziano method that at that time prevailed like pedagogical approach of the rising schools, based in the Naturalismo.

The Normal School Superior Santiago de Tunja, was identified in its beginnings by a philosophy of the education, framed in the Educative Nationalism of second the half, Sixties of century XIX, philosophy that propose an Integral Education based on the love to the country, sense universal humanist, sense of tolerance, sobriety, frugalidad, purity, moderation, templanza and, generally, virtue that is the ornament of a free and democratic society. In 1925 the pedagogical model was adopted “New School”; framed within active, current the pedagogy pedagogical of height in directed Europe to lay the foundations one more an education in agreement with infantile psychology and with the requirements of the modern life.

Around these educative ideas a group arose from remarkable educators of diverse countries of Europe and America (Dewey, Piaget, Claparede, Freinet, etc.) and by all means Colombian like: You take Cadavid Restrepo, Vernal Rafael Jiménez; insigne jurisconsulto and boyacense humanist, with pure nationalistic fervor and Agustín Grandson Horseman who invited to Boyacá to the educator Ovid Decroly who was in Colombia to exhibit the foundations on the New Education and the methods of Active Education. Vernal Rafael Jiménez retook the decrolianas ideas and advanced a true change in the direction of the schools of the department, along with the management of the educator Julius Sieber, that assumed rectoría in 1926.

In this stage, a reconstruction was done of the curriculum, aiming at the specialization of the educational ones in the main scientific disciplines like guarantee of one better pedagogical formation. A “additional Course of Specialization” was organized in the Normal School, which is considered simultaneously like the same origin of the first Faculty of Education that was based on the country, and, the foundation of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia. This reach took place in 1893. This process, the then National Normal School of Men becomes the manager of the Mater Soul, because later by decree 857 of April 21 of 1934, the faculty of Sciences of the Education for women was created in Bogota which depended on the National Institute, and in Tunja the same Faculty of Sciences of the Education for men.

The government decided to fuse the two sectional ones so that they worked annexed to the National University; but the movement of protest in Tunja was impelled, pressure that gave rise to avoid the transfer and, indeed, the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia with character of Technological consolidated officially from the Sixties.In the direction of the Normal one also the Directors participated by that time Enrique Alvarez Bonilla, Youngest child Nates, Luis Alexander Márquez, Loyal Domingo, Miguel A. Rodriguez, Luis A. Sailor A., Domingo A. Combariza, Leonidas Cely, Luis Alberto Castilian, Rafael Table Or. Polished Germa'n, Arístides Zamudio and Jose Vicente Rodriguez.

Since then, the Normal School stayed as annexed to the University. In year 1975 one separated of this one in the public prosecutor although their pedagogical practical academic development and stays very compatible to the Mater Soul. At this moment, within the framework of the reconstruction, the Normal School Superior Santiago de Tunja has agreement with the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.In year 1953 the diurnal section of Academic Baccalaureate was created “Miguel Jiménez Lopez” and in 1972 the Nocturnal one, with aims of experimentation and pedagogical practice of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.

At all the times, according to the requirements and educative needs, the then National Normal School of Men, outstanding by the pedagogical renovation is had and to the interior of their administrative organization and academic modifications, adaptations and necessary changes established by the Ministry of National Education have arisen, for the educative quality, the projection to the community, the cultural extension at local, regional and national level, with a view to obtaining the integral formation of the educandos, in the levels of Pre-school, Basic and Average Academic. Also the educators Mardoqueo Santamaría and Eduardo Crowned Barajas exerted the functions of rectoría during half of century XX.

At the moment Superior Santiago de Tunja is director of the Normal School the Presbítero Second Rosendo Count Barrera. From 1988, it replaces to Aryan Takings Avila, it administers the Institution and it in the last induces years the implementation of the PEI, in agreement with the requirements of the General Law of Education and Decree 3012 of 1997, to l same time leads the plan of reconstruction of the Normal School Superior Santiago de Tunja. By the way, in the year of 1999, the Previous Accreditation with the model was obtained: Integral formation in the Context of the Hermenéutica Pedagogy and at this moment is working with a view to obtaining the Accreditation of Quality and Development.