Abstract

ARRIBALZAGA, María Belén. “Te dicen que en la escuela vas a estar mejor, pero es más de lo mismo”. El sistema educativo entre la necropolítica y las pedagogías transformadoras. Prax. educ. [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.1, pp.270-288. ISSN 0328-9702.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.19137/praxiseducativa-2021-250118.

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 middle-school 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.

Keywords : necropolitics; slow death; teenagers; queer pedagogy; educational system.