HISTORY TRACES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN MEXICO

Interculturality for whom?

Abstract

Public education has been linked to the construction of the nation project, it guided the formation process of people under different and even opposite ideals and models. Throughout the 19th century the indigenous people were excluded. In the hegemonic nation project that was established during the Government of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1910) with a positivist side vision the education had the function to “mexicanizarlos”. In that sense they were included by denying them. After the Mexican Revolution of 1910 the next Governments reproduced the same practices in this regard.At present the problematic of culture poses new challenges to education and because of that it is relevant that we ask ourselves if we are in a different situation or if we still reproduce same models just with a differents discourses.