Abstract

FATYASS, Rocío. Children's agency at school. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.3, pp.111-139.  Epub Nov 23, 2022. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/rlcsnj.20.3.4734.

This study addresses agency practices by working class children at a primary school in Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina. Using an ethnographic method, the research focused on children's agency capacity in school contexts. The author asked what modalities are assumed by children's agency practices? This is based on how children resist temporal and spatial orders in school, redefine their views and assessments of teachers and dispute the distribution of material resources. The results indicate that children produce different agency processes through intergenerational discourses and interactions that are woven into everyday school life. These practices are not instrumental nor in all cases reflexive, instead they are socially embedded.

Keywords : Childhoods; school; agency; adult authority; inequality.

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