Technical-Professional Education and Training in Argentina: Articulations between offers and institutional concretions from the case analysis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54674/ess.v36i1.889
Keywords: education technical education; technical training; labor; articulation

Abstract

This work proposes to answer the question about how it is possible to advance in generating articulation schemes from the identification, characterization and analysis of models and strategies of articulation and linkage between levels of teaching and training offers deployed by the institutions of Education Technical and Professional Training in Argentina with the purpose of guaranteeing for its students and future graduates complete trajectories in specific training fields, offering skills for job performance, promoting the completion of mandatory studies and/or the continuity of higher education. The research presented here used a comparative multiple case study strategy, selecting five institutions that promote heterogeneous articulation strategies and models. The selection was based on the crossing of the following criteria: presence of different geographical contexts of the country (regions, large and intermediate cities); different sectors or fields of training, including the strategic sectors; institutional alternatives with different consolidation trajectories (formalized and consolidated models and more recent developments or those in the process of formalization). The field work was carried out between February and October 2022 and had the excellent disposition of officials, managers, teaching staff and students who allowed access to the institutional proposals, the personal and professional journeys of the interviewees and the physical and virtual spaces in which professional training takes place.

Author Biographies

Irma Briasco, National Pedagogical University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

D. in Education from the National University of Córdoba, Specialist in Planning and Management of Social Policies and Bachelor's Degree in Education Sciences, both from UBA. Since 2007 she has been a teacher and researcher at the National Pedagogical University. Since 1995 she has worked as a TVET Specialist at the OEI, Organization of Iberoamerican States. She is a consultant for international organizations such as ILO, OAS, WB, IDB, EU, UNESCO, among others. Lecturer and author of publications on technical and vocational education and comparative studies.

Nancy Montes, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Degree in Sociology, Specialist in Social and Demographic Indicators (University of Buenos Aires). Master's Degree in Social Sciences with a specialization in Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Argentina. She is a professor and postgraduate researcher at FLACSO, UNTREF and UNIPE. She is a member of the team of specialists of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI). She has been a consultant for UNICEF, IDB, IIPE UNESCO and OREALC. Her main areas of interest are educational policies, information systems, secondary and higher education, and social and educational inequalities. He has written and collaborated in numerous publications related to these topics. Affiliation: Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Argentina; Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) Argentina Office; OREALC Consultant.

Eugenia Roberti, Arturo Jauretche National University and La Plata National University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Degree in Sociology, Master and PhD in Social Sciences from the National University of La Plata (UNLP). She is currently an Associate Researcher at CONICET, Argentina; she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at several national universities. Member of the Program of Studies on Youth, Education and Work (PREJET-IDES). Her main areas of interest are youth, biographical studies, social inequality and education-training-work policies. She is part of several research projects and has published several articles in national and international journals on these topics. Affiliation: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche; Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social, Programa de Estudios sobre Juventud, Educación y Trabajo (CONICET-UNAJ/FaHCE-UNLP/IDES-PREJET).

Federico Martín González, National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Professor and Licentiate in Sociology and PhD in Social Sciences from the National University of La Plata (UNLP). He is currently an Assistant Researcher at CONICET, Argentina. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at several national universities. His lines of research are oriented to the topics of educational trajectories, educational completion policies, articulations of the worlds of education and work and inclusion strategies aimed at young people and adults. Affiliation: National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Laboratory of Studies in Sociology and Labor Economics; Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences of the National University of La Plata (CONICET-LESET-IdIHCS/FaHCE-UNLP).

Anabela Ghilini, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ) and Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UNIPE), Argentina

Professor and graduate in Sociology and PhD in Social Sciences from the National University of La Plata (UNLP). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at CONICET, Argentina. She is an undergraduate professor at several national universities. She has published several articles in national and international academic journals. Her main areas of interest are the sociopolitical analysis of recent history and studies on the history of the university in Argentina. Affiliation: National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences of the National University of La Plata (CONICET-IdIHCS/UNLP).

Published
2024-06-30
How to Cite
Briasco, I. B., Montes, N., Roberti, E., González, F. M., & Ghilini, A. (2024). Technical-Professional Education and Training in Argentina: Articulations between offers and institutional concretions from the case analysis. Higher Education and Society Journal (ESS), 36(1), 73-96. https://doi.org/10.54674/ess.v36i1.889
Issue
Vol 36 No 1 (2024): Higher education governance, government and management
Section
Articles Thematic Dossier

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