Muralism and Otomí pedagogy

Abstract

Based on ethnographic work, this article analyzes three mural paintings located in the “Miguel Hidalgo” Otomi primary school of the Cieneguilla community in the municipality of Tierra Blanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. Being artistic and pedagogical expressions generated circumstantially, we argue that these murals are associated with a “cultural curriculum” that adds social practices, beliefs and Otomi mythology to other national references. For the same reason, and despite their formal and thematic differences, school murals allude to an ethnic update narrative which coincides with the current multicultural policies of the Mexican state.