Youth in Postwar Guatemala: Education and Civic Identity in Transition

Author:   Michelle J. Bellino
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9780813587998


Pages:   270
Publication Date:   30 June 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Our Price $121.31 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Youth in Postwar Guatemala: Education and Civic Identity in Transition


Add your own review!

Overview

Winner of the 2018 Comparative & International Education Society's Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award and the 2018 Council on Anthropology of Education's Outstanding Book Award 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. Through rich ethnographic accounts, Youth in Postwar Guatemala, traces youth experiences in schools, homes, and communities, to examine how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice traverse public and private spaces, as well as generations. Bellino documents the ways that young people critically examine injustice while shaping an evolving sense of themselves as civic actors. In a country still marked by the legacies of war and division, young people navigate between the perilous work of critiquing the flawed democracy they inherited, and safely waiting for the one they were promised...  

Full Product Details

Author:   Michelle J. Bellino
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9780813587998


ISBN 10:   0813587999
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   30 June 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

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  

Reviews

A heartbreakingly beautiful narrative account of how students and teachers at four very different Guatemalan secondary schools negotiate the complexities of history and identity. Bellino provides a brilliant model of nuanced inquiry into the vicissitudes of citizenship education for fragile democracies. --Bradley Levinson Department of Education, Indiana University


A heartbreakingly beautiful narrative account of how students and teachers at four very different Guatemalan secondary schools negotiate the complexities of history and identity. Bellino provides a brilliant model of nuanced inquiry into the vicissitudes of citizenship education for fragile democracies. --Bradley Levinson author of Beyond Critique: Exploring Critical Social Theories and Education Youth in Postwar Guatemala is a gripping ethnographic portrait of learning to become civic actors in the face of enduring legacies of civil war. It challenges us to re-think basic assumptions about developing democratic citizenship education policies in post-conflict societies. --Thea Renda Abu El-Haj author of Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11


Author Information

MICHELLE J. BELLINO is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Education in Ann Arbor.  

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List