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Schooling and Critical Citizenship: Pedagogies of Political Agency in El Alto, Bolivia
Author(s) -
Lazar Sian
Publication year - 2010
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/j.1548-1492.2010.01077.x
Subject(s) - citizenship , agency (philosophy) , politics , sociology , critical theory , critical pedagogy , citizenship education , gender studies , embodied cognition , social change , ethnography , pedagogy , social science , political science , epistemology , anthropology , law , philosophy
This article explores the formation of citizenship as social practice in a school in El Alto, Bolivia. I examine interactions between “banking” forms of education, students' responses, and embodied practices of belonging and political agency, and argue that the seemingly passive forms of knowledge transmission so criticized by critical pedagogy need not preclude the development of critical citizenship in young people . [citizenship, El Alto, schooling, political agency, critical pedagogy]