Description: Unintended Lessons of RevolutionStudent Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico Author(s): Tanalis Padilla Format: Hardback Publisher: Duke University Press, United States Imprint: Duke University Press ISBN-13: 9781478013860, 978-1478013860 Synopsis In the 1920s, Mexico established rural normales-boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino ranks and meant to cultivate state allegiance, their graduates would facilitate land distribution, organize civic festivals, and promote hygiene campaigns. In Unintended Lessons of Revolution, Tanalis Padilla traces the history of the rural normales, showing how they became sites of radical politics. As Padilla demonstrates, the popular longings that drove the Mexican Revolution permeated these schools. By the 1930s, ideas about land reform, education for the poor, community leadership, and socialism shaped their institutional logic. Over the coming decades, the tensions between state consolidation and revolutionary justice produced a telling contradiction: the very schools meant to constitute a loyal citizenry became hubs of radicalization against a government that increasingly abandoned its commitment to social justice. Crafting a story of struggle and state repression, Padilla illuminates education's radical possibilities and the nature of political consciousness for youths whose changing identity-from campesinos, to students, to teachers-speaks to Mexico's twentieth-century transformations.
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Book Title: Unintended Lessons of Revolution
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Type: Textbook
Author: Tanalis Padilla
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
