Abstract
This article studies the impact that the different trips to Cuernavaca (Mexico) have on John Holt at the beginning of the 1970s. Those trips were relevant to the development of his ideas about educational institutions and to the genealogy of the homeschooling movement. The time spent by Holt at the Intercultural Documentation Center (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca meant the personal encounter with Ivan Illich. It was then that he came into contact with the ideas of de-schooling. These ideas are the basis of the turn that led Holt thereafter to explore educational alternatives outside the scope of the school institutions and that made him position himself as one of the outstanding leaders of homeschooling/unschooling in the United States. This research analyzes Holt's trips to Cuernavaca and his stays at the CIDOC of Ivan Illich from primary historical sources. Keywords: John Holt. Ivan Illich. Homeschooling.
Highlights
La educación en casa es un movimiento global y plural que abarca con amplitud el espectro ideológico y político, así como como un extenso abanico de creencias y prácticas religiosas
Those trips were relevant to the development of his ideas
The time spent by Holt at the Intercultural Documentation Center
Summary
La educación en casa es un movimiento global y plural que abarca con amplitud el espectro ideológico y político, así como como un extenso abanico de creencias y prácticas religiosas. En la carta escrita días después de su primer viaje a Cuernavaca, el 27 de febrero de 1970, y dirigida a estudiantes de la Boston University, Holt hacía alusión a lo que consideraba una aportación fundamental de Illich en su estudio de las instituciones educativas: “Una de las cosas de las que Illich habló en México (...) era del grado en el que nuestra imaginación ha sido capturada no solo por las escuelas, sino en mayor medida por las instituciones y la idea de las instituciones”
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