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In Mexico, basic schooling is composed of three levels: infant (or preschool) education, primary (or elementary) education and secondary (or middle school) education, each taught at a different educational establishment. Students egressing from elementary school are (in average) between 12 to 13 years-old, an age of profound changes to which the following can be added: a different educational establishment, different class mates/peers, higher organizational specialization and class work strategies which, in turn, result in a higher number of teachers. Secondary schools have harder institutional structures and higher disciplinary control, so that students seek new ways of negotiation. This article elaborates on those experiences, on how control over appearance, place and body movements influences students through spokesmen and norms, and how body control effectively 'becomes part' of daily class work. I use an ethnographic approach enriched by the categories of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), which allows visualization of the passage of students from one level to another as a network of paths and routes in tension transcending space scales and measured time. It is assumed that students will also build its action context.This paper is written in Spanish. |
