Humanist Political Discourse: The Illusion in the Implementation of the New Mexican School

• Autor: González Silva, Mónica
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Universidad José Carlos Mariátegui
• Repositorio: UJCM-Alternancia
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/1673
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistaalternancia.org/index.php/alternancia/article/view/1673
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Política educativa; Humanismo; Planificación; Evaluación; México; Educational policy; humanism; planning; assessment; Mexico

This research analyzes the coherence between the humanist discourse of Mexican educational policy and school practice in a public elementary school during the implementation of the New Mexican School. The objective was to identify how humanist principles are reflected in teachers’ planning and assessment. A qualitative approach with an ethnographic design was adopted, using observation and interviews as techniques, along with a triangulation of critical-discursive analysis. The findings reveal a gap between political discourse and school realities, where teachers adapt their practices to meet normative demands, without truly reflecting the humanist formation promoted by the policy. Planning and assessment become technical mechanisms that simulate results. It is concluded that current educational policy promotes an illusion of humanist transformation that is not realized in practice, creating contradictions between normative intentions and the real experiences of school actors.