Youth in Postwar Guatemala - Education and Civic Identity in Transition

Informationen zum Autor Michelle J. Bellino Klappentext Through rich ethnographic accounts, Youth in Postwar Guatemala, traces youth experiences in schools, homes, and communities, examining how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice develop through formal and informal educational interactions. Michelle J. Bellino shows how a new generation struggles to unlearn authoritarianism and develop new democratic civic identities.  Zusammenfassung In the aftermath of armed conflict! how do new generations of young people learn about peace! justice! and democracy? Michelle J. Bellino describes how! following Guatemala's civil war! adolescents at four schools in urban and rural communities learn about their country's history of authoritarianism and develop civic identities within a fragile postwar democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Citizen, Interrupted 2 Education and Conflict in Guatemala 3 International Academy: The No-Blame Generation and the Post-Postwar 4 Paulo Freire Institute: The All-or-Nothing Generation and the Spiral of the Ongoing Past 5 Sun and Moon: The No-Future Generation and the Struggle to Escape 6 Tzolok Ochoch: The Lucha Generation and the Struggle to Overcome 7 What Stands in the Way 8 Waiting Afterword Acknowledgments Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Michelle J Bellino, Michelle J. Bellino
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780813587998
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-8799-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood St; Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology