Los fines de la educación en la «Pedagogía estructurativa» de José Vasconcelos
Journal
Revista Panamericana de Pedagogía
Publisher
Universidad Panamericana, Escuela de Pedagogía
Date Issued
2021-07-03
Author(s)
Macías Barba, María del Pilar
Type
Resource Types::text::Non-primary product
Abstract
A century after the founding of the Ministry of Public Education of Mexico, it is appro-priate to return to the educational approach of its founder, José Vasconcelos, to identify the congruence and greatness of its civilizing purpose based on instruction, work, culture, and art—a truly comprehensive educational project. The purpose of this article is to present the concept of education that underlies the Pedagogía Estructurativa of José Vasconcelos and to propose five aims of education that arise from it and that keep a harmonious, hierarchi-cal, and systemic relationship. This proposal is the result of the selection, organization, and analysis of Vasconcelos’s work and mainly of the analysis of his book De Robinsón a Odiseo: Pedagogía Estructurativa. This article is divided into three parts. The first part integrates the concept of education. The second part identifies the educable areas or dimensions of the per-son. The third part proposes the classification of the five aims of education of Vasconcelo’s thought, namely physical, professional, intellectual, ethical, and aesthetic education. Each educational level presupposes and complements the previous one, achieving a transcen-dental individual development while attending to the spiritual and material well-being of the community. Thus the value of Vasconcelos’s humanist ideology is shown. Vasconcelos conferred his humanism on the Ministry of Public Education while conveying his passion for the spiritual regeneration of Mexicans through the fight against «ignorance and misery, our true enemies» (Vasconcelos, 1920a, p. 52).
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How to cite
Macías Barba, M. del P. (2021). Los fines de la educación en la «Pedagogía estructurativa» de José Vasconcelos. Revista Panamericana de Pedagogía, (32), 11-27. https://doi.org/10.21555/rpp.vi32.2257
Table of contents
Introducción -- Concepto de educación -- Dimensiones de la educación -- Fines de la educación -- La educación física -- La educación profesional -- La educación intelectual -- a. El alma crece con la enseñanza -- b. La cultura se renueva y perpetúa -- c. La mejora de las condiciones materiales de vida -- La educación ética -- La educación estética