The education system in Mexico / / David Scott [and three others].

• VerfasserIn: Scott, David,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 172 pages)

Over the past three decades, a significant amount of research has sought to relate educational institutions, policies, practices, and reforms to social structures and agencies. A number of models have been developed that have become the basis for attempting to understand the complex relation between education and society. At the same time, national and international bodies tasked with improving educational performances seem to be writing in a void, in that there is no rigorous theory guiding their work, and their documents exhibit few references to groups, institutions and forces that can impede or promote their programs and projects. As a result, the recommendations these bodies provide to their clients display little to no comprehension of how and under what conditions the recommendations can be put into effect. The Education System in Mexico directly addresses this problem. By combining abstract insights with the practicalities of educational reforms, policies, practices, and their social antecedents, it offers a long overdue reflection of the history, effects and significance of the Mexican educational system, as well as presenting a more cogent understanding of the relationship between educational institutions and social forces in Mexico and around the world.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and a Brief History of the Mexican Education System -- History of the Mexican education system -- The Carrera Magisterial and the Teaching Plaza -- The political setting -- 2 Reforming the System: Successes and Failures -- The lack of research and information -- Key problems and concepts -- Mexican corporative society -- The constitution of the hegemony (1917-34) -- The consolidation of the hegemony (1934-45) -- The apogee of the hegemony (1945-68) -- The hegemony under pressure (1968-90) -- The unravelling of the hegemony (1990- ) Post-2000 developmentsThe role of educational institutions -- The educational crisis in perspective -- 3 Curriculum, Pedagogic and Assessment Reforms in the Mexican System -- The systemic-technological curriculum -- Critical-reconceptualist curriculum approaches -- Psycho-pedagogical or cognitive constructionist approaches -- An interpretivist curriculum -- Neoliberal curricula in Mexico -- The enacted curriculum -- Curriculum and assessment practices -- 4 Pre-Service and In-Service Training in Mexico -- Models of teacher training -- Teacher-training practices -- Teacher training -- In-service training Designing in-service training courses -- 5 Parents and the Mexican Education System -- The role of parents: fictive and real -- Parental participation in Mexico -- Discrimination and playing the system -- 6 Intercultural Education and Alternative Education Programmes -- Third sector organizations in Mexico -- The emergence of independent dissent -- Beyond the revolution -- Sidestepping the state: finding space between the cracks -- Think global, act local 1: engagement with the base -- Think global, act local 2: the international reach of local educational reconstruction Working towards educational emancipation: A contested terrainCritical pedagogies -- Educators and the learning community -- An alternative vision -- 7 Systems and System Reforms -- Formal and informal elements -- Teachers and teaching -- Education systems -- Educational development -- Change -- Education policies and practices in Mexico -- References -- Index.