Presentation on the book "Luis Jorge Zanotti: Sus ideas educativas fundamentales y su importancia para nuestro tiempo" (Luis Jorge Zanotti: His fundamental educational ideas and their importance for our time).
Dr. Gabriel Zanotti provided a summary of the books and main articles by Luis J. Zanotti, from 1958 to 1991. Luis Jorge Zanotti was born in Buenos Aires in 1928 and graduated as Maestro Normal Nacional (National teaching diploma) and as Professor of Pedagogy from the University of Buenos Aires. He taught at all levels and was professor of Educational Policy at UBA since 1968. He was author of several books and articles of his specialty, which range from reforms to the secondary school system to innovative proposals for freedom of education. He died in 1991 while he was Editor in Chief of the newspaper La Nación. His complete works were published in 1994 and can be found in LUIS J. ZANOTTI - Su Obra Fundamental (Luis J. Zanotti. His Fundamental Work).
Gabriel J. Zanotti was born on April 13, 1960. He is a Professor and has a degree in Philosophy from Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino (UNSTA) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Catholic University of Argentina. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Communication of the Austral University, undergraduate and postgraduate professor at CEMA University, Academic Director of the Acton Argentina Institute and visiting professor at the Francisco Marroquín University of Guatemala. He published Economía de Mercado y Doctrina Social de la Iglesia (Market Economy and Social Doctrine of the Church); Popper: búsqueda con esperanza (Popper: search with hope); Hacia una hermenéutica realista (Towards a realistic hermeneutics); Comentario a la Suma Contra Gentiles (Commentary on Summa Contra Gentiles); Judeocristianismo, Civilización Occidental y Libertad (Judeo-Christianity, Western Civilization and Freedom).
Edgardo Zablotsky es Ph.D. en Economía en la Universidad de Chicago, 1992. Membro de Número de la Academia Nacional de Educación, ejerce los cargos de Profesor Titular y Rector de la Universidad del CEMA. El Dr. Zablotsky es Miembro de la Mont Pelerin Society, del Consejo Académico de la Fundación Libertad y Progreso, y de la Fundación Atlas (Argentina), y del Consejo Consultivo de la Fundación Acton (Argentina). Centra su interés en dos campos de research: filantropía no asistencialista y las políticas públicas llevadas a cabo en el área educativa en nuestro país.