La Révolution mexicaine racontée aux enfants

Abstract

As part of this article, we focus on representations of the Mexican Revolution in the textbooks of history which are free distributed in primary schools. In these books entitled «Mexico 2010, Bicentenario Independencia, Centenario Revolución» published the year of the centennial commemoration of the Revolution, appears a series of continuities but also iconographic breaks to illustrate this episode of Mexican history.If the multiplication of portraits of military leaders continues to illustrate the national pantheon as in the previous textbooks, a new visibility is given to people who played an important role in the revolutionary process.

Keywords

• history of education in Mexico
• cultural history
• image analysis
• patriotic iconography
• textbooks