The peculiarity of the chihuahuense student movement of 1973

Abstract

The closure of the Preparatoria de la Universidad de Chihuahua in 1973 caused the loss of critical and humanistic thinking forged in more than 140 years of educational tradition, where an education was aimed at toward the most dispossessed, with a spirit of solidarity, rooted in teachers trained in normal and rural schools. The purpose of this research is to give to the recovery of this historical legacy from its social context. To this end, the research question is: How to give to the recovery of the historical legacy of humanist and critical thinking of the Preparatoria de la Universidad de Chihuahua from its social context? Using the theoretical methodological referents from their peculiar characteristics, as well as the social, political and cultural factors for the emergence, development and closure of this school. Based on qualitative research and critical historiography, supported in collecting basic sources, secondary and tertiary, which have given an account of student movements, the perspective has finally structured its approach. The partial results that we have found are the high degree of social conscience of the Latin American universities and, as a peculiarity, the problem of the possession of land, as well as the agrarian question, in the case of the Preparatoria de la Universidad de Chihuahua, the chihuahuense movement students cannot be understood without considering the university movements that gave life to the university reforms in Latin America.