Abstract

TOBENA, Verónica. Rethinking Middle School and the Modern School Format: The Experience of Extracurricular Workshops in an Argentine School. RMIE [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.68, pp.167-190. ISSN 1405-6666.

This article analyzes the strategy of a middle school, located in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, that favors extracurricular workshops. We sustain that this proposal attempts to use workshops to compensate for the shortcomings of traditional school. The study, of an exploratory nature, adopted a qualitative methodology that consisted of observing extracurricular activities and conducting in-depth interviews with directors, teachers, and students. The research revealed the emergence of certain tensions between the workshop proposal and the curriculum plan. Such tensions were synthesized in pairs: duty versus desire, scientific disciplines versus artistic disciplines, good students versus bad students, workshops as an incentive versus workshops as a threat, and workshops as flexibility versus workshops as control.

Keywords : middle school education; curriculum; extracurricular activities; modernity; Argentina.

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