The teaching of biological evolution in Mexican socialist textbooks in the 1930s

• Erica Torrens Rojas ^[1] ; Juan Manuel Rodríguez Caso ^[1] ; Ana Rosa Barahona Echeverría ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

     Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

     México

     
• Localización: Culture & History Digital Journal, ISSN-e 2253-797X, Vol. 10, Nº. 2, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Maps and Cartographic Ideas in Motion. Circulation, Transfers and Networks)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This manuscript presents the genesis and development of the so-called “Mexican socialist” school system of the 1930s, whose leading stakeholder was President Lázaro Cárdenas. At the beginning of the socialist project, Mexico underwent the most politicized and controversial education reform in its modern history. Much has been said about this ambitious project of social change. However, a thorough exam is still needed, especially on how socialist values were globalized and appropriated in the Mexican scenario regarding the new State project of basic education. In this sense we are interested in how science was portrayed in Natural Sciences textbooks, especially focusing in biological evolution.