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Revista Colombiana de Educación

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ZIEGLER, Sandra. Teacher-Student Asymetries: Emotional and Ideological Disputes Concerning Elite Education. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2016, n.70, pp.101-123. ISSN 0120-3916.

This article tackles the issue of the work of high school teachers in elite education institutions in Buenos Aires. For this purpose, the study analyzes their positions and their own emotional and ideological disputes concerning their work in those institutions. The research addresses the diverse strategies developed in order to create asymmetries between them and their students. At the same time, the differences between public and private elite schools are studied. Both models coexist in Argentina, each having different recruitment patterns and selection procedures. This article gathers the results of a qualitative research based on interviews to thirty teachers from diverse subjects, from four different schools. Three of them are private (one religious, two secular), and the last one is public. All of them claim themselves as elite education institutions. The mechanisms developed by the teachers in order to establish that asymmetry vary in connection with the recruitment pattern of each of those elite schools. It is noticeable that asymmetry for them is a core condition of their pedagogical relationship with their students.

Keywords : Secondary school; teachers; asymmetry; elite; public and private schools.

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