Villaseñor Palma, K.;
Silva Ríos, C.E.;
Huerta Morales, G.;
(2022)
A socio-historic overview of social pedagogy and social work in Mexico.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy
, 11
(1)
pp. 1-10.
10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2022.v11.x.003.
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Abstract
In this article, we offer a socio-historic overview of the development of social work and social pedagogy in Mexico. First, we examine the rise of the welfare state in Mexico in the immediate post-revolution period and the way the new secular government assumed control of social intervention. We describe the inception of the School of Social Assistance and the emergence of social work in the country, as well as exploring the role and influence of Cultural Missions and the training of social workers. We discuss the role of Fundamental Education, rural schools and their resemblance to the ideals of social pedagogy. Finally, we describe the founding of the Degree in Educational Intervention, which we consider sows the seeds of socio-pedagogical thought and practice in Mexico. We conclude that, despite the many periods of reorganisation of social intervention by successive governments, different initiatives use education to promote individual and collective development. Though social pedagogy does not exist as a profession in Mexico and social work is an imprecisely defined profession, education has a socialising potential that underpins pedagogical work of an extensive network of areas and agents animated by social ideals and goals.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A socio-historic overview of social pedagogy and social work in Mexico |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2022.v11.x.003 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2022.v11.x.0... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022, Karla Villaseñor Palma, Carlos Enrique Silva Ríos and Guadalupe Huerta Morales. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | social pedagogy, social education, popular education, history of social education, social work, history of social work, Mexican social professions, educational intervention |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155038 |
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