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“I Let Not Just Their Knowledge But Their Worlds Inform What I Teach.” Difficult Knowledge in the Popular Education Classroom in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Author(s) -
O’Donnell Jennifer Lee
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12323
Subject(s) - popular education , curriculum , sociology , pedagogy , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , engineering
Popular educators are encountering students’ past trauma and dealing with how to engage ethically with social issues through “difficult knowledge” (Britzman 1998). The force of their curriculum provides the education community the ability to learn from their social conditions and share in the difficult knowledge experienced among them. This paper focuses on work at one popular education high school, The October 14 th School of Villa 50, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.