THE COLEGIO DE SAN NICOLAS DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. FROM EDUCATIONAL AREA TO SOCIAL EXPECTATION

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the discursive construction of a social
representation of the “nicolaitas” (regents, professors and students) fostered by
the internal regulations of the Colegio de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. The main
supplying of this work are, therefore, the regulations of the Colegio de San Nicolas
in Morelia. At the same time, some communications between the secretary of
the State Government and that of the campus were reviewed, as well as some
press releases. The arguments are constructed based on Pierre Bourdieu’s
approaches to representation and with some guidelines to approach the rules
and practices offered by the analysis from the viewpoint of everyday school life.
The main question that has been raised is how much the regulations weighed at
the moment of interacting outside the school. Through discourse analysis, we
reflect on how they sought to be perceived in terms of practices and values that
they considered as their own, but also attached to the regulations.