The Configuration of Exclusive Pedagogies in Secondary Education: analysis of critical processes in an educational center on the outskirts of Montevideo

Abstract: This article studies the configuration of exclusive pedagogies in high school. The case of a peripheral high school in Montevideo is studied, carrying out an ethnography for two years. Through process-tracing, the process of educational exclusion of an adolescent in conflict with the institution is investigated, analyzing the specific mechanisms by which a series of incivilities are punished by the school institution, causing their expulsion and culminating in union, police and judicial actions. The case shows the practical forms of exclusion of poor adolescents in Uruguay and allows us to think about the relationships between inequality, punishment and recognition in the educational space.