Abstract

REYES, Susana Ayala. Conceptual and institutional frames in the history of bilingual education in Mexico. Reflections on indigenous education in the Chiapas Highlands in the fifties. Rev. Bras. Hist. Educ [online]. 2021, vol.21, e187.  Epub June 25, 2021. ISSN 2238-0094.  https://doi.org/10.4025/10.4025/rbhe.v21.2021.e187.

From the description of the educational project of the first Indigenista Coordinating Center in the Chiapas Highlands, I show that the notion of bilingual education and the proposal to unify the educational system for the indigenous population in Mexico had antecedents since the early 1950s. I analyze how the semantic shifts of the concepts and ideological contents of ‘bilingual education’ and ‘educational unification’ determined different teaching and teacher training practices in 1954 and 1964. I study the institutional struggles between the indigenistas anthropologist and linguists with officials of educational agencies in Chiapas. Finally, I propose that, as result of political and ideological tensions the use of 'indigenous language' was coined as another conceptual notion that requires a renewed analytical gaze.

Keywords : indigenism; bilingual education; indigenous education; conceptual history; Chiapas Highlands.

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