Abstract

FRANCO GARCIA, Martha Josefina. “We do it for everyone, so that we all can live better on this land”. Involvement and management in an indigenous school. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2020, vol.42, n.167, pp.84-102.  Epub Apr 30, 2020. ISSN 0185-2698.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iisue.24486167e.2019.167.58854.

This study was conducted in an indigenous school, centering on the axis of school management. Our objective was to analyze the functions which the state delegates to the school, in a specific social and historical context, and identify what it seeks to implement in terms of order and normativity, as well as how the school collective is organized. The methodology used was ethnography, which allowed us to acknowledge that, beyond the Ministry of Public Education (Spanish acronym SEP)’s affirmations regarding autonomy of management gestion, the school has a history which combines aspects like involvement, responsibility, community work, decision-making, management, and agreements. With these actions, the collective not only succeeds in operating the school, it also cements its legitimacy through a cultural bond which gains cohesion from the commitments which emerge in its day-to-day affairs.

Keywords : Indigenous school; Management; Autonomy; Culture; Community involvement.

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