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Cultural Politics in Revolution : Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940 /

"Innovative study of the cultural legacy of the Mexican Revolution, using the story of rural schools. Focuses on Puebla and Sonora and the attempt by the central government to implement socialist education and to advance its nationalist agenda. Stresses the importance of negotiation among natio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaughan, Mary K., 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the cultural politics of the Mexican revolution
  • Revolutionary cultural policy : the Secretaría de Educación Pública
  • Translating cultural policy : the mobilization of federal teachers in Puebla and Sonora
  • "On the blackboard, no cow ever died" : campesino duels with schools in revolutionary Tecamachalco
  • "Good day, pistol! Where are you taking that teacher?" : socialist education in Zacapoaxtla
  • "Educated by bullets" : the yaquis of Sonora, the Mexican school, and the Mexican state
  • Weaving fantasies of modernity, eating "tortillas filled with faith" : the cultural politics of schooling in a Sonoran immigrant society
  • Conclusion : the school, hegemony, and civil society.