RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Children of a Brazilian Favela
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 79
OP 84
DO 10.17763/haer.51.1.q0j21688l1255207
VO 51
IS 1
A1 Coles, Robert
YR 1981
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/51/1/79.abstract
AB Robert Coles describes the political socialization of children in a Brazilian favela and how, in the midst of extreme deprivation, they place themselves in the social and political order of their country. He offers, in the children's own words, their acute understanding of the role of religion, the police, and the wealthy in shaping their existence, a"paradoxical combination of weary cynicism and fatuous optimism, and in between, a terrible apprehension of what, finally, must be."