Description:
This article deals with the figure of tutorial as it is classically used in university contexts, which is different from other tutorials of a pedagogical nature. The study is about the academic tutorial as a result of the production of knowledge as an exclusive effect of cognizance and the ties between the tutor and the student. A diachronic study was carried out in order to search for the antecedents of this figure. A synchronic study was also carried out, based on documents and interviews to participants in tutorials at the Universidad de la República (UdelaR).