Abstract

PENA RAMIREZ, César Gabriel. The monopoly of education. The artisan culture through its educational practices: the teaching of trades during New Spain. Debates hist. [online]. 2021, vol.9, n.1, pp.19-42.  Epub June 20, 2022. ISSN 2594-2956.  https://doi.org/10.54167/debates-por-la-historia.v9i1.637.

This article makes a brief approach to the ways of teaching artisan trades in New Spain. Social relations and educational practices are analyzed inside and outside the artisan workshops that contributed to creating representations of what I call being an artisan from a historic, socio-historic and cultural anthropology perspectives. The structure of the workshop, the forms of income and the two most important areas that made up artisan education (practical and moral education) are described and analyzed. For such purposes, a variety of first and second order sources recovered from the Historical Archive of Mexico City, the Historical Archive of Notaries of Mexico and the National Library Reserve Fund were used. The article aims to develop the complex social and educational relationships of artisan culture neglected by the history of Mexican education.

Keywords : Craftsmen; arts and crafts; practical education; moral education; guilds.

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