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...

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.