Más allá del tiempo y el espacio: un modelo pedagógico para las niñas desde la España ilustrada al México republicano

Abstract

In 1768, King Charles iii issued some rules to foster the creation of free schools for girls. The so called «Reglamento para la creación de escuelas gratuitas en los distritos de Madrid» was issued in 1783 and forty-three years later this particular regulation was transferred from Madrid districts to republican Mexico, a distant and different geographical location under a federal, liberal government. Our concern in this article is with the study of girls’ public education within the new social order established in northern Mexico at the time in order to get to know which the aims of the girl centers in this arid zone were and why this regulation was passed in spite of the time lag with regard to its Spanish source.