Abstract

FLORES MENDEZ, Yessenia. Rural teachers’ schools in México: student movement and subversion. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.87, pp.205-226.  Epub Nov 20, 2019. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/872019/aot3/floresmendezy.

The objective of this article is to explain the causes of the participation of the student leaders of the Rural Normal Schools (ENR) in the Mexican student movement of the sixties that ended in 1968. As well as the subsequent effects, among them, the application of the educational reform of 1969 that eliminated fifteen of twenty-nine Rural Normales. The transformation of half of ENR in Secondary Technical Agricultural Schools (ETA). The government and the SEP argued the reorganization of rural education, by separating the secondary cycle of the professional cycle (normal) to professionalize the teaching career and with the creation of a new subsystem of upper secondary education. But the student leaders and rural normalista students rejected the reform to normal education, in spite of the protests they could not stop its implementation. This work has a social history approach, from below. We also return to the contributions of James Scott, who proposes to interpret the political behavior of subordinate groups through strategies of resistance. The investigation is documented with files of the public version of the Ministry of the Interior.

Keywords : Social movement; Resistance; Educational reform; Rural education; Guerrilla.

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