Don Vasco de Quiroga promotor de la educación indígena
This work has been done by investigating Augustinian and Vasco de Quiroga´s teaching Work in Mexico. He´s still being called Tata Vasco. He was founder of towns, schools and hospitals in Mexico, which were later called reducciones. Vasco de Quiroga was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres between 14...
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Published in | Revista historia de la educación latinoamericana Vol. 13; no. 13; pp. 67 - 84 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | Spanish |
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Sociedad de Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana, SHELA
2009
Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia |
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Summary: | This work has been done by investigating Augustinian and Vasco de Quiroga´s
teaching Work in Mexico. He´s still being called Tata Vasco. He was founder of
towns, schools and hospitals in Mexico, which were later called reducciones.
Vasco de Quiroga was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres between 1470 and
1479. Being a great jurist and listener, he founded the Santa Fe de la Laguna institution
with some Augustinian´s help in 1533. He was appointed as Michoacán`s Bishop in
1536, where he made a fine wok by founding villages, hospitals and schools such as
San Nicolás, first a seminary and college, and later into a university. He Was also a
great natives rights defender and opponent to slavery. His message still appears today
in Vasco de Quiroga University`s motto: Teaching by truth, and the same in its mission.
It encourages people to believe in Vasco de Quiroga´s catholic humanism in order to
change society by means of education.
Tata Vasco was a pioneer educating native people in Nueva España virreinato.
His essay People with schools and hospitals seemed to be a utopia. Later, it became
a model for reducciones, followed by Franciscans and Jesuits in Paraguay.
El objeto de este trabajo es resaltar la actuación docente de los agustinos en México,
con Vasco de Quiroga, Tata Vasco; fundador de pueblos con escuelas y hospitales,
un anticipo de lo que luego se llamó reducciones. Se ha utilizado una metodología
analítica, complementaria y evolutiva dentro de la investigación, que desde hace unos
40 años se está realizando para la historia de la Orden de San Agustín en Hispanoamérica, teniendo en cuenta la bibliografía existente y la revisión de los archivos.
El colegio de San Nicolás se mantuvo floreciente durante la colonia y fue la base
de la universidad michoacanesa de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. En ese colegio se formaron muchos de los 200 sacerdotes que había en su diócesis, junto otros tantos religiosos, que enseñaban y predicaban el Evangelio en castellano y en las lenguas aborígenes.
Fue un destacado promotor de la educación indígena. |
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ISSN: | 0122-7238 2256-5248 |