Desórdenes y juegos de chapas en la plaza: estudiantes,espacio público y juventud  (San Fernando,c.1870-c.1900)

The article analyzes the problem of the links between the formative process of all-boys education in public secondary schools during the nineteenth-century,the public sphere and aspects regarding the construction of collective juvenile identity within a local space. From a brief set of controversial events,examined through press,bibliography,memoirs and reports from educational and political authorities from San Fernando,the article discusses problems that express on a provincial scale,processes that are part of wider occurrences and that are related to the slow social process of recognizing youth as an actor in modern Chile.