Journal Article

Self-made school and the everyday making in Buenos Aires slums

Grinberg, Silvia

2019

Overview

A governmentality ethnographic approach is adopted to examine the everyday making of school in Buenos Aires slums. By addressing events at the intersection of the life of school and of the neighborhood, in this article we problematize schooling - how it is put together and the tensions that beset it on a daily basis. The notion of the self-made school is proposed as a way to delve into how management society calls on the population to manage itself. We identify micro-procedures that take the shape of silent struggles to turn the school/neighborhood into a place to live. As a hypothesis, we propose that school is produced at the intersection of everyday struggles and the struggle for the everyday in the context of the precarization of life in the age of management. From a methodological standpoint what are at play are not dichotomies, but rather the stickiness and tension of daily practices.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor & Francis, Ltd,Taylor & Francis,Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subject: Accountability / Educational Change / Educational History / Educational sociology / Educational Strategies / Equal Education / Ethnography / everyday struggles / Foreign Countries / Governmentality / Institutional Autonomy / Institutional Characteristics / managerial age / Meetings / Neighborhoods / Power Structure / Prevention / responsibility / School Administration / School Closing / School Safety / Secondary Schools / Self-made schools / Slum Schools / Slums / Social Differences / Teacher Attitudes / Teacher Leadership / Violence