Foro de Educación (Dec 2008)

Memoirs of a classroom in the city of Mexico: furniture and school material (1879-1911)

  • Rosalía Meníndez Martínez

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 10
pp. 245 – 263

Abstract

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At the end of the XIXth century, it experienced important changes in the public primary education in Mexico, as result of the project of modernization that porfirista impel the government between the year 1882 and 1911. Under this ambien- ce of changes, the classroom were for first attended in his demands of furniture, scho- ol material and spaces; therefore the environment and the dynamics to the interior of these school spaces, it was transformed, and with it there was marked the beginning of a new period in the public school especially the urban one. The intention of this one article it centres on studying the memory of these loun- ges of class, in which deep changes were experienced in the period of between centu- ries and which marked the school culture of the XXth century. Key words: Modernization, School culture, School inventory.