La Coeducación en La Formación De Maestros Rurales en México (1934-1944)1

After the Revolution of 1910, the government opened rural normal schools to train teachers for rural areas. The schools underwent several transformations, but functioned as boarding schools for both sexes until 1943. During the administration of President Ávila Camacho, an attempt was made to reduce the influence of Communists in the Ministry of Public Education and in teachers' unions by launching a campaign against coeducation. The campaign was successful in a society fearful of interaction between the sexes in boarding schools. When these schools stopped being coeducational, the enrollment of girls increased, but the training of rural teachers changed considerably.