Science and education at Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (Mexico, 1867)
Abstract
In this article we analyze the foundation of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, founded in 1867 in Mexico, and directed by the physician Gabino Barreda. This institution stood out as an instrument of national construction, and scientific and political emancipation. The perspective of analysis is part of a resizing of the history of the institutions, expanding the meaning conferred on these spaces, inserting them in the process of institutionalization of science, which includes various elements, dynamics of scientific institutions, the scientific community, social groups and the interests of the State. The study of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria integrates the preliminary results of a project that seeks to analyze the process of institutionalization of science, especially the biological and natural sciences, in Mexico and in Brazil, in the context of consolidation and modernization of the National State, in the period from 1860 to 1900, based on the analysis of the process of creation and consolidation of educational institutions.
Keywords: history of sciences-Latin America, institutions-Mexico, education-Mexico, Latin America-National State.
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