Abstract

MARTINEZ-MOCTEZUMA, Lucía. Kindergarten and the Pedagogical Mission: A Cultural Contact Between Mexico and the United States, 1883-1910. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2021, n.82, pp.281-300.  Epub Apr 05, 2022. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num82-11119.

This article, result of a wider research, analyzes the adoption of a pedagogical proposal for the Mexican school system: kindergarten. Seen from the historical perspective, the pedagogical mission becomes a strategy to know the school system that has been circulating since the end of the 19th century in Europe and from which Mexican teachers will learn through the mediation of the North American schoo system. With multiple scholarships to visit various schools in the United States, a group of teachers will gain visibility in a primarily male environment, thanks to their reports and their writings published in pedagogical journals, schoolbooks as wel as in practice as teachers and principals, directing groups or Creating schools. The research analyzes the reports of their visits to schools, their personal files as well as various articles written and published in pedagogical journals of the time, in which photography is included as a source of information.

Keywords : Kindergarten; early childhood education; study abroad; educational methods; women education.

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