Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling, and Societies by Friedrich, Daniel; Colmenares, Erica;

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El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas. It is also a rare example of a cultural product that has travelled through Latin America, leaving a lasting impact for several decades.

Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling, and Societies analyses the phenomenon of El Chavo, and its images of schooling and childhood, Latin American-ness, class and experience. With contributions from scholars emerging from or based in countries including Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia and the US, the book combines reflections from a variety of international perspectives without attempting to compare or reach consensus on any ultimate meaning(s) of the work. The book explores themes such as images of schooling and childhood, romantization of poverty, the prevalence of non-traditional families and the bordering cynicism towards the economic structures and inequalities which, some argue, make the show transgressive and quite uniquely Latin American. Investigating the connection between visual culture studies and transcultural curriculum studies, this innovative title provides scholars with original new insights into conceptualizing childhood, schooling and society in Latin America.

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Introduction, Daniel Friedrich (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) and Erica Colmenares (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)
Part I: El Chavo Encounters Latin American Education and Childhoods
1. Schooling, pedagogical imaginaries, and Latin American childhoods in El Chavo del 8, Nicolas Arata (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Daniel Friedrich (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)
2. Conceptions of Childhood in the Vecindad, Victoria Parra-Moreno (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)
3.""Here comes Chavo! Everyone's watching the TV"". Thinking about difference and alterity, childhood and education, Ana Paula Marques de Carvalho and Rita Frangella (University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Part II: El Chavo's Encounters With Other Latin American Societies and Cultural Artifacts
4. From the Picaresque Novel to El Chavo del 8, Carlos Aguasaco (City College of New York, USA)
5. Border-crossing Chespirito: El Chavo del 8 Meets Pepito in Exile, Limarys Caraballo (Queens College of the City University of New York, USA)
6. El Chavo del Ocho as ""Intimate Publics"" in Venezuela: What happened to the Good Life?, Erica Colmenares (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)
Part III: El Chavo's Media-ted Encounters
7. Figures of Mexican State, Society and Subject in Chespirito's TV, Ernesto Treviï¿1⁄2o Ronzï¿1⁄2n (University of Veracruz, Mexico)
8. Media Education 'Sin Querer Queriendo', Dulce Marï¿1⁄2a Cabrera (Autonomous University of Chiapas, Mexico) and Josï¿1⁄2 Carbajal (Ministry of Public Education, Mexico
Coda: El Chavo del 8's Connections and Reverberations, Erica Colmenares (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) and Daniel Friedrich (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)
Index