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From a social-critical community perspective, in this study, we make visible the practices of resistance and/or reproduction to the Chilean neoliberal educational system that are deployed in a collaborative workspace for teachers in science. We resorted to critical ethnography, deployed in the techniques of: participant observation, semi-structured interview and discussion group. Through a qualitative analysis of content, two axes are identified to address the practices deployed in the collaborative workspace: organizational practices and pedagogical practices. Teachers identify that the educational system that contextualizes their work prevents collaborative practices from being expressed and predominant in the space, given that their evaluative demands oppress them, distancing them from the activities that are developed in the collaborative space. We conclude that the practices of reproduction and resistance coexist in the group's evolution, establishing themselves as an apparent dichotomy that forces them to "reproduce in order to resist". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In research on the diversity of childhood studies and those that addressed early childhood in rural contexts in particular, I examined the situation of primary schooling along the coastal area of Chiapas from the point of view of teachers and administrative staff. The data collected comes from preschools, Community Education Centers run by the National Council of Educational Development (CONAFE), and a Child Development Center (CDI). I review the results of the physical, training, legal, and care conditions of these schools and discuss these in the context of childhood schooling and the marginalization of education in rural contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]