Education in Chihuahua during the first decades of the 20th century. An approach through the biographical method

Abstract

Education in the state of Chihuahua, during the first decades of the 20th century, was determined by the radical change in approaches of the Porfirian governments towards those of a liberal nature led by the post-revolutionary groups. Starting in 1920, the feat of building a new educational system that sought to detach from the past classification as dark, but which, at least in the state, took as its starting point the institutions and functional bases of education that were forged during the Porfirian era. This work incorporates the use of the biographical method to account for some characteristics of education in Chihuahua during the first decades of the 20th century, through documents from teacher Antonio Quevedo Caro’s work file and from other primary sources. The compilation of information is carried out in the Archivo de Concentración de Gobierno del Estado de Chihuahua, in the Archivo Histórico of the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua and through consultation in secondary bibliography on the subject. Among the main findings are the great possibilities of the biographical method to analyze aspects of daily life in education.