Abstract

CHAOUL PEREYRA, Ma. Eugenia. An orthopedic device for teaching: The General Directorate for Primary Education and the teachers of the Federal District, 1896-1913. Secuencia [online]. 2016, n.95, pp.63-90. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i95.1391.

Once they became federal employees in 1896, the primary teachers of the Federal District and the territories (Nayarit and Baja California) played a special role in setting in motion the educational policy of the Porfirian regime. Within the context of the long-awaited educational centralization, the authorities encouraged teachers to act as agents of modernization and to disseminate the new pedagogical contents. However, the bureaucratic structure designed for this purpose became an apparatus that supervised, controlled and immobilized teachers, relegating them to a receptive, secondary role, dependent on favors from the authorities. This performance was crucial to understanding the characteristics acquired by the teachers’ organization at the outbreak of the revolution.

Keywords : teaching; bureaucracy; corporatism; General Directorate of Public Education.