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Education Truly Matters: Key Lessons from Mexico's Educational Reform for Educating the Whole Child

Audacious Education Purposes. How Governments Transform the Goals of Education Systems, 2018

Mexico's 2012-2018 federal administration launched an extensive educational reform whose main goal was to transform its large and complex education system, so as to prepare students to successfully face twenty first century challenges. The assumption being that, by providing them with the tools they need to succeed in this rapidly changing world, Mexico will in turn become prosperous, fair and free. It entailed rethinking the conceptualization and structure of the system, and involved profound transformations in its organizational, budgetary, technical, pedagogical and administrative spheres, with quality and equity as guiding principles. Two disruptive innovations-which steered the process-stand out: teachers' appraisals and the new national curriculum. About this curriculum, three, of several salient features, discussed in this chapter, are: its learning outcomes' structure, which effectively articulate twelve of the fifteen grades of compulsory education; the introduction, from PreK to12th grade, of socioemotional learning; and curricular autonomy as a means to achieving pedagogical innovations in schools. Unfortunately, this reform defied deeply rooted uses and habits of various stakeholders and treaded on many political interests, which resulted in a convoluted process that has threatened its consolidation. The new president campaigned against the reform. It is still uncertain what policies would continue. I am indebted to Professor Fernando M. Reimers for inviting me to contribute to this book, and to the Fundación México en Harvard for granting me the 2018-2019 Antonio Madero Visiting Scholar Fellowship. This award allowed me to be part of Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, an exceptional academic setting where I was able to research and write this paper. I am also very grateful to Julian Torres-H-Bonilla for revising the manuscript of this chapter, particularly to ensure clarity of language and fluency of ideas, and to Marco A. Torres-H for checking the bibliographic references. They were both very helpful, but I take full responsibility for the final version of this chapter.

The Background and Development of Mexican Educational System: the Main Features

2015

This article is the result of scientific-pedagogical research, which was conducted to identify the main characteristics of the background and development of Mexican educational system. The author found that the development of the Mexican education system can be divided into three periods; in modern Mexico the educational policy focuses on building national cultural educational camp, harmonizing both globalization and unique identity tendencies of development; in the Mexican establishments of higher education, the practical application of professional training curriculum is based on communicative methods and different techniques, especially, interactive and project techniques; there is observed a new tendency of centralizingdecentralizing management processes in Mexican Education.

Educación y Ciudadanía en el México del Siglo XXI

2009

espanolEn este trabajo se analizan algunas caracteristicas y problematicas de la educacion mexicana, bajo aportes teoricos de autores criticos y constructivistas. Se utiliza la metodologia de investigacion documental para analizar diferentes posturas teoricas sobre la educacion. En la conclusion, se mencionan formas para la construccion de una educacion de calidad y para mejorar los problemas actuales en dicha area. EnglishIn this article the author analyzes some characteristics and problems of the Mexican education, inspired by theoretical contributions of critical and constructivist authors. The methodology of documentary research is used to analyze different theoretical positions on education. In the conclusion, ways for the construction of an education of quality are mentioned.