Resonances of El Chavo del 8 in Latin American Schooling, Childhood, and Societies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

El Chavo del 8 is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years. Papers present different visions from Latin American scholars as they engage in thinking through El Chavo: images of schooling and childhood; Latin American-ness; affect, media and class; and conceptions of State and violence. The panel will invite reflection from an international and transregional perspective, as a rhizomatic approach to reading El Chavo and examining its echoes in contemporary schooling. Informed by the theme of “accepting educational accountability,” the presenters explore the connection between visual culture studies and transcultural curriculum studies as they navigate the transnational poetics of living with popular culture.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 1: Cultural Inquiry in Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Daniel Friedrich, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Media(ted) Education sin Querer Queriendo - Dulce Maria Cabrera, Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla; Jose Carbajal Romero

• Border-Crossing Identities, Culture, and Citizenship: El Chavo and Pepito as Latin American Cultural Icons - Limarys Caraballo, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Identification, Social Representations, and Schooling in Chespirito's Television - Ernesto Treviño Ronzon, Universidad Veracruzana

• El Chavo del Ocho as an "Intimate Publics" in Venezuela - Erica Eva Colmenares, San Jose State University