Cover Image

Unintended lessons of revolution : student teachers and political radicalism in twentieth-century Mexico /

"In the 1920s, Mexico established normales rurales-boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino ranks and meant to cultivate state allegiance, their graduates would facilitate land distribution, organize civic festivals, and promote hygiene campa...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Padilla, TanaliÌ?s, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Education, Rural > Social aspects > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Teachers colleges > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Boarding schools > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Peasants > Education > Social aspects > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Teachers > Political activity > Mexico > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico.
Boarding schools.
Education, Rural > Social aspects.
Teachers colleges.
Teachers > Political activity.
Mexico.
1900-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Normales, education, and national projects
  • A new kind of school, a new kind of teacher
  • "And that's when the main blow came"
  • Education at a crossroads
  • "The infinite injustice committed against our class brothers"
  • Learning in the barricades
  • "A crisis of authority"
  • "That's how we'd meet...clandestinely with the lights off"
  • Epilogue: Education, neoliberalism, and violence.