Historical and modern aspects of civic-ethical education in technical middle school: Mexican context

Abstract

There are presented the historical and modern aspects of civic-ethical education in Mexican technical middle schools through a documentary-bibliographic study. It was found out, that the historical development of civic-ethical education in Mexico has a long account, beginning in the 16th century at the time of the conquest when it depended on religious education and catechism, going through the periods of Enlightenment and liberalism in New Spain when it became a compulsory subject in the educational system, and consolidating in the 20th century. Th e main objective of the modern civic-ethical education as a part of the community-oriented training in Mexican technical middle (secondary) schools, is the promotion of activities through which adolescents, in different areas of training (school, family, community, etc.), learn to become able and responsible citizens and to assume a set of attitudes to function as such.