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Curriculum studies in Mexico

origins, evolution, and current tendencies

Ángel Díaz Barriga

pp. 91-109

Abstract

It was during the 1970s that curriculum studies texts started to circulate in Mexico, all of them translations into Spanish of US publications. During these years Mexico adopted the curriculum concepts of the United States, marked by technical styles that were sometimes very close to behaviorist psychology. In 1982 Mexico lived through one of its great economic crises. In its wake was the ascendancy of the so-called Chicago school, an economic school that extolled the so-called free markets. These historical events mark how Mexico incorporated curriculum theory, first from the United States, then from Latin America, and, most recently, internationally, now installing procedures expressing a homogenizing logic. In this chapter I will offer an interpretation of these historical events and the curricular concepts that followed.

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Pinar William F. (2011) Curriculum studies in Mexico: intellectual histories, present circumstances. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 91-109

DOI: 10.1057/9780230337886_5

Full citation:

Díaz Barriga Ángel (2011) „Curriculum studies in Mexico: origins, evolution, and current tendencies“, In: W. F. Pinar (ed.), Curriculum studies in Mexico, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 91–109.