Open Access"They tell you that in school you'll be better off, but it's the same old thing”. The educational system between necropolitics and transformative pedagogies
Author(s) -
María Belén Arribalzaga
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
praxis educativa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2313-934X
pISSN - 0328-9702
DOI - 10.19137/praxiseducativa-2021-250118
Subject(s) - transformative learning , sociology , queer , gender studies , resistance (ecology) , politics , focus (optics) , inequality , criminology , pedagogy , political science , law , ecology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , optics , biology
This work is grounded in my professional practice as a teacher in middle schools in vulnerable neighborhoods in the southern part of the city of Buenos Aires. In this article I will focus on the relationship between middleschool education for teenagers from vulnerable contexts and specific processes of violence and exclusion such as "slow death" and "necropolitics". The hypothesis I will present is that in certain contexts, the educational system encourages and (re)produces a politics of death that exposes these male identities to greater risk. I will also contend that this has its correlation in the construction of identities. Finally, I will suggest that critical and queer pedagogies can provide tools for resistance and transformation.