The Moral Construction of Student Rights

Discourse and Judgment Among Mexican Secondary School Students

Bibliographic Data

ID2366476
AuthorsBradley A Levinson (0009-0008-6897-0755, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume27
Issue1
Pages45-84
Publication date1998-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/089124198027001003
OpenAlexW2100346770
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited33

This article describes the different forms of students' moral discourse at a Mexican secondary school, paying special attention to their judgments about teachers' arbitrary use of authority, pedagogical formality, and favoritism. The article then analyzes the historical and cultural roots of this discourse. Taking issue with situationist and organizational explanations of pupil resistance, the author argues that to fully understand student's moral discourse at this school, one must examine the historical changes in local social relations and recently emergent cultural conceptions of "rights" that inform this discourse

Civil discourse · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Formality · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Situationism · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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