Resumen

MOLINA JIMENEZ, Iván. Educational Reform and Citizen Resistance in Costa Rica in the Late 19th Century. Secuencia [online]. 2014, n.90, pp.57-75. ISSN 2395-8464.

The main purpose of this article is to propose a new interpretation of citizen resistance to the reform of Costa Rican education carried out in 1886, which suppressed municipal control and the influence of the Church in elementary education, which it organized into grades. To this end, the article analyzes how school coverage varied between 1885 and 1892, and which strategies were implemented by various communities to oppose the new education policy. It reaches the conclusion that this opposition, based on principles such as not sending children to school or transferring them from public to private establishments, achieved -in a context in which liberal politicians and intellectuals faced increasing discontent in the electoral sphere- an amendment or minimization of some of the most controversial aspects of the reform.

Palabras llave : Education; citizenship; liberalism; history; Costa Rica.