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The circus is a nomadic community that, wherever it goes, carries everything it needs to survive: a few mobile homes, a handful of performers, a trained elephant, two or three camels, a school, and... a master. That’s right, in the circus you also study. In Mexico, the educational system is responsible for sending teachers to travel with the circus caravans and provide basic education to the children of circus performers and workers. This research describes the circus people’s spectacular way of living the world, as well as how their culture can be reflected in the school their children attend. This research contributes to the recognition of human diversity, under the argument that if there is no single valid way of living in the world, then there is no single valid way of living in school. Perhaps that is why the real challenge of this book is not to describe the strange things that happen in a circus school, but to make those who read it question the 'normality' of the school in which they grew up and the culture in which they were born.
