Resistance to the educational reform of 1969 in the Rural Normales in Mexico

Abstract

The objective of this text is to expose the resistance of rural normalist students to the normal education reform implemented after the 1968 student movement, which eliminated 14 Rural Normal Schools (enr) of 29 by reorganizing them into Agricultural Technical High Schools (eta). The Ministry of Public Education (sep) justified the reorganization with pedagogical arguments to improve its function with the separation of the secondary cycle from the normal cycle. We return to the contributions of James Scott, who proposes to interpret the political behavior of the subordinate groups through resistance strategies. The sources that support this work are documents of the public version of the governing branch of the General Archive of the Nation.