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Título del libro: Artistic Education: A Laboratory To The Fashioning Of Mexican Identity (ca. 1920-1940)

Autores UNAM:
GEORGINA MARIA ESTHER AGUIRRE LORA;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2013
Resumen:

With the Mexican revolutionary governments as its framework, this chapter deals with the unfolding of artistic education in elementary school, attesting to a culminating phase in the shaping of Mexican identity. Culture and art played a crucial role in the formation of a shared sensitivity in a mass society that was striving to achieve-in its diversity-a homogeneous model of Mexicanity. The scaffolding for this project of nation was initially built with the support of a group of artists, intellectuals, and teachers that collaborated with Jos é Vasconcelos in the Ministry of Public Education (1921), amalgamating the educational and cultural policies of this time, policies that were to be inserted in the project of popular education during this period. Throughout two decades, 1920-1940, there were also different political turns and gradual radicalizations. The innovative aesthetic resources propelled by the state became crucial to the effort of shaping the new citizen. This was a transition from a civic community into a cultural community in which the artistization of the citizen played a fundamental role. © Thomas S. Popkewitz, 2013. All rights reserved.


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