Among the different dimensions of visual experience that schools organize, model and reproduce, time is one of the least researched. Through the analysis of four images from four different elementary schools in Santiago, Chile, this visual essay explores ways in which the visual culture of schools refers to time, both as an organizational variable and as an interpersonal condition that, in turn, can be associated with different pedagogical practices.
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