The Citizen Factory by Aurolyn Luykx
This vivid ethnography of Bolivian students explores the challenges they confront as they try to maintain their indigenous identity. In examining how the concrete practices of schooling shape student identities, this book looks at how the discourses and texts produced by students themselves are appropriated toward this end, and how students mobilize their own cultural resources to contest this process, critiquing and subtly transforming the agenda of state-run education. These issues are addressed as they are played out in the lives of young Native South Americans (Aymaras) studying to become rural schoolteachers in Bolivia, the poorest and most indigenous of all Latin American countries. It is a vivid ethnographic account of how these students confront the assaults which their professional training wages against their indigenous identity, as they alternately absorb and contest the ethnic, class, and gender images meant to transform them from Aymara Indians into Bolivian citizens.-
Late to Class
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Working at the Margins
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Canal Town Youth
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Codes and Contradictions
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Constructing Race
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Becoming Women/Becoming Workers
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Meaningful Urban Education Reform
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Constructing Female Identities
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Beyond Black and White
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Making and Molding Identity in Schools
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The Cultural Production of the Educated Person
Aurolyn Luykx teaches in the Linguistic and in the Pedagogy departments at the Universidad Mayor de San Simon (UMSS), Cochabamba, Bolivia.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780791440384 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791440389 |
| Title | The Citizen Factory |
| Author | Aurolyn Luykx |
| Series | Suny Series Power Social Identity And Education |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1998-12-03 |
| Number of pages | 399 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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