Abstract

Based on official files from the Mexican Ministry of Public Education (SEP), this article analyzes how urban school spaces were redefined during the period of 1924-1930. The Department of Educational Psychology and Hygiene (DPeH), founded by the SEP in 1925, was the principal office dedicated to the inspection of hygiene in school spaces for students and the teaching staff. Influenced by the “school of action” and its precept learning by doing, required specifications (lighting and ventilation) for classrooms and workshops were enforced. Outdoor spaces for the development of sports activities were also needed for an adequate institutional functioning.

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