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Juan Carlos Tedesco
(5 February 1944 – 8 May 2017) was an
Argentine
academic and policy maker who was the President's Education Minister, from December 2007 to July 2009.
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Life and career
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Tedesco was born in
Buenos Aires
in 1944. Enrolling at the
University of Buenos Aires
, he graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Letters in 1968. He taught as Professor of Educational History in the Universities of
La Plata
,
El Comahue
and
La Pampa
and authored his first book,
Education and Society in Argentina, 1800-1945,
in 1972.
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Tedesco was appointed as an education policy specialist in 1976 for
UNESCO
's Latin American Development and Education Project. He became Director of UNESCO's Regional Center for Latin American Higher Education in
Caracas
between 1982 and 1986 and of their Regional Education Center in
Santiago
between 1986 and 1992. Repression suffered by Argentine educators and students during its
last dictatorship
led Tedesco to co-author a criticism of the problem,
The Authoritarian Educational Agenda
, with
Cecilia Braslavsky
in 1983.
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The experience earned him the post of Director of the
IBE
in
Geneva
, a position he held until 1997, and as head of the Buenos Aires UNESCO bureau, until 2004. Tedesco returned to Academia, dividing his time between the private
Universidad de San Andres
and the public
National University of Tres de Febrero
, both outside Buenos Aires. He was subsequently appointed to the Federal Teacher Training Commission by Education Minister
Daniel Filmus
, who replaced Vice Minister
Alberto Sileoni
with Tedesco in April 2006.
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The
October 2007 election
of Filmus as
Senator
for the city of Buenos Aires and of Senator
Cristina Kirchner
as
President of Argentina
led to Tedesco's swearing-in as Education Minister on 10 December 2007. Following a defeat in the 28 June 2009,
mid-term elections
and a resulting cabinet shake-up, however, he was replaced on 20 July by Sileoni. Tedesco was made executive director of the Unit of Strategic Planning and Evaluation of the Argentine Educational System, an agency within the Office of the President.
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Tedesco died in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 8 May 2017 after a long illness. He was 73.
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