A pedagogy throughout the printed press: México Intelectual magazine and the dissemination of the educational project of Enrique C. Rébsamen. 1889-1895

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to offer an analysis overview of the intellectual efforts and educational outreach by Enrique C. Rébsamen, founder and director of the Escuela Normal de Xalapa (Teacher Training College Xalapa) in the late nineteenth century through the magazine México Intelectual, in its first five years of existence. He, as well as a team of collaborators, most of whom were teachers at this school and followers of the educational reform projects undertaken in the country during the regime of Porfirio Díaz since the end of the eighties of the XIX century, until the beginning of the XX century, when Rébsamen died. The editorial lines included in this magazine covered different points of particular interest to those teachers, who during those years appeared as professionals in the emerging national educational system, providing them with a large amount of contents related to their work and adopting a pedagogy oriented towards conveying knowledge and contents of a scientific nature, in accordance with the Positivist assumptions prevalent in the national educational system at that time.