Abstract
The objective is to present the initial training of primary school teachers in the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Based on Social History, limited to the History of Education, with comparative techniques, the data was analyzed to make the historical reconstruction. The questioning, articulating axis of the work: how was the origin of the training of primary instruction teachers in the state of San Luis Potosí throughout the 19th century? The findings show: the origin of teacher training from the Lancasterian perspective, the basis of public education and teacher training; the transition between teacher training with religious and secular features; And during the Porfiriato, at the local level in 1884 with an educational reform with a theoretical-political orientation of positivism.
Keywords:
Teacher training; Teaching; Teachers; Public education; Methods