El currículum y la innovación educativa: primeras notas sobre la Nueva Escuela Mexicana

This essay is the product of the reflection generated for a conference in a seminar on curriculum and educational innovation. The new Mexican School is the name received from the current educational reform of which only the normative framework of it is available. Knowing the regulatory framework of the reform gives us clue to how the designers of the curriculum will translate it into the curriculum and programs. This leads us to consider what historical era does the New Mexican School represent? What is the model of citizen trained with the current curriculum? The usefulness of Herder's metaphor on seed and plant does not serve to think about the curriculum, educational innovation and the New Mexican School as a tree that would have to be analyzed on the elements that constitute it to understand them. The educational innovation conceived today requires innovating in the current change of historical era; the curriculum must be thought of from the subjects of curriculum development, that is, those teachers who constitute themselves as social subjects, without undermining what the subjects of determination and curriculum design provide; therefore, the New Mexican School requires a new teacher who adheres to an educational project by school or school zone, to a community i.e. other teachers with similar ideas and a utopia that education remains a factor of happiness, at least.