Revolutionary in education, Kristen Kold a pioneer of Danish folk high school movement

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-245) and index.

Church politics and educating Mexicans : a background -- Primary education : programs and pedagogy -- Vocational education : training hearts and hands -- Urban missionaries : teachers, priests, and volunteers in classrooms -- Daily life in primary schools : moralization in an immoral city -- Adults in the classroom : making their own revolution -- Community education in public spaces : revolutionary entertainment and Catholic unions -- Church-state tensions turn into conflict : from Catholic social action to the Cristiada -- Epilogue : "On the subject of politics, morality, and bras."