Abstract
This article presents a reflection on the role of the school in constructing citizenship and the mechanisms employed to this end. Based on ethnographic research in two schools, and in the framework of the Educational Revolution, I underline paradoxes and contradictions that indicate both processes of discrimination and processes of reification in students who self-identify as «Aymara». Parades and Wiphalas (the Indigenous Peoples’ flag and new national emblem since 2009) have become symbols of the schools and form the backbone of the behaviors and values that the school institution seeks to transmit to its students. Family expectations, often left aside, are woven into the reasoning in order to highlight the complex relationship between what is familiar and what is foreign, as well as challenges to interculturality, understood as a tool for emancipation.
Highlights
This article presents a reflection on the role of the school
the mechanisms employed to this end
I underline paradoxes and contradictions that indicate both processes of discrimination and processes of reification
Summary
RESUMEN Este artículo presenta una reflexión sobre el papel de la escuela en la construcción de ciudadanía y los mecanismos empleados para tal fin. A partir de una investigación etnográfica en dos escuelas, y en el marco de la «Revolución Educativa» en Bolivia, subrayo paradojas y contradicciones que apuntan a procesos tanto de discriminación como de reificación de los estudiantes (auto)identificados como «aymara». Desfiles y wiphalas (bandera de los pueblos originarios y emblema nacional desde 2009) se erigen, respectivamente, como símbolo de cada una de las escuelas y vertebran las conductas y valores que la institución escolar pretende transmitir a sus estudiantes. Tantas veces obviadas, se entretejen en el argumento para poner de relieve la compleja relación entre «lo propio» y «lo ajeno» así como los desafíos a los que se enfrenta la interculturalidad entendida como herramienta de emancipación.
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