<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article aims to explore the ways in which power structures the learning experience in high school, detailing what kind of cultures it creates and what practices it fosters. By interviewing students (currently enrolled in the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Cluj-Napoca) recalling their high school years, I can tap into their reflexivity regarding the experiences of being taught to and of learning, focusing especially on how these have become legitimated and have formed the subject. Drawing on Paulo Freire’s theory of the banking model and using a post-structuralist framework, the research intends to make visible a current account of institutionalization of learning. Finally, the research shows how pupils become subjects to be categorized according to their compliance to the programme’s requirements and how they might internalize legitimized forms of learning (such as memorizing for further testing) in detriment of others.</p></abstract>

This article aims to explore the ways in which power structures the learning experience in high school, detailing what kind of cultures it creates and what practices it fosters. By interviewing students (currently enrolled in the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Cluj-Napoca) recalling their high school years, I can tap into their reflexivity regarding the experiences of being taught to and of learning, focusing especially on how these have become legitimated and have formed the subject. Drawing on Paulo Freire’s theory of the banking model and using a post-structuralist framework, the research intends to make visible a current account of institutionalization of learning. Finally, the research shows how pupils become subjects to be categorized according to their compliance to the programme’s requirements and how they might internalize legitimized forms of learning (such as memorizing for further testing) in detriment of others.

The Making of Pupils: Institutionalized Education in Romanian High Schools

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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This article aims to explore the ways in which power structures the learning experience in high school, detailing what kind of cultures it creates and what...

The Making of Pupils: Institutionalized Education in Romanian High Schools

Published Online: Aug 20, 2018

Page range: 113 - 133

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2018-0007

Keywords
institutionalized learning, education, high schools, power, ethnography

© 2018 Maria Martelli, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Making of Pupils: Institutionalized Education in Romanian High Schools

Published Online: Aug 20, 2018

Page range: 113 - 133

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2018-0007

Keywordsinstitutionalized learning, education, high schools, power, ethnography

© 2018 Maria Martelli, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
institutionalized learning, education, high schools, power, ethnography