From the ShantyTown: an analysis of the school through shantytown poetry

Abstract

This article explores the way in which the school appear in Argentina’s shantytown poetry. The main purpose is to incorporate to the Educational debate the voices of those who live under vulnerable conditions. Through this analysis it is possible to go in depth on the view of the portrayal of the school and its activity from a different perspective.
In this sense, there were three main viewpoints that wereidentified according to the type of activity that the school fulfills in each of the poems: the school as an obstacle, the school as a mechanism of social reproduction and the school as an opportunity. This analysis shows how the concept of school is shaped by context and how it appears, paradoxically, as one of the mechanisms that generates that context but which, at the same time, has the power transform it.