State Corporatism, Educational Policies, and Students' and Teachers' Movements in Mexico 1

The purpose of this chapter is to explain educational policies and practices in Mexico in the period 1970-1990, with a particular focus on students’ and teachers’ movements. The analysis centers on processes of negotiation, struggle, and compromise inside and outside the educational system. I employ a theoretical perspective emphasizing both a national level analysis, focusing on state interventionism linked to organized corporatist associations (Morales-Gomez and Torres 1990), and a world system analysis concerned with global economic and cultural dynamics.