Representaciones del cuerpo infantil en los libros de texto mexicanos, 1880-1940

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2011-12

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The aim of this study is to analyze the representations and speeches on the children's body in Mexican primary school, and to see how hygiene, morality and gender relations are conceived. Its main source is a set of books, from different disciplines, that circulated between 1882 and 1940. They were published as a result of agreements reached in three hygienic and educational congresses (1882, 1889 and 1890) and were updated in response to other educational projects such as the Rural School (1920) and the Socialist School (1940). In a first stage, the writer addresses the urban reader, where stories of rural children, indigenous or poor, became an example of the evils of society that could only be overcome by modernity and science, giving birth to productive citizens. During the second decade of the twentieth century, educational speech privileges the children living in the countryside, those who will shape the future working class. Books in general sought to interest the children in the reading of useful questions, with topics based on the virtues of manual labor and environmental care to meet the needs of civilization.

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