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The problems linked to the training trajectories of those who enter the university are not limited to social issues, personal history or the mere transition between levels, but have strong institutional conditioning factors. This paper questions the devices that national universities have designed to regulate access to the level. The objective is to present a mapping of these devices in the national universities in Argentina built from a comparative perspective. A survey of institutional regulations was carried out, as well as information available on the official website of the institutions. After the construction of a systematized data matrix, trends are identified from a cross-sectional reading of the constructed map. There is a high presence of regulatory devices for admission in national universities, with variable characteristics regarding their mode of organization, curricular components, duration and planned evaluation methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the importance of considering "gender regimes" as strategic enclaves in the processes of mainstreaming comprehensive sex education policies in high school. The analysis is based on a diverse set of empirical data constructed in an ethnographic investigation carried out between 2017 and 2018 in a high school in Gran La Plata, Argentina. From the description of a gender regime called "virile" and within the framework of an institutional culture characterized as "normative", the paper reveals some limitations of a way of mainstreaming comprehensive sex education that here is called "curricular" and it offers some clues to consider in which ways an approach that considers the totality of institutional dynamics in their pedagogical dimension could enhance the scope of a policy aimed at combating gender inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper that I share arises as a result of the doctoral thesis "Teacher training in the face of digital culture. The convenient, the desirable, the possible" (2009-2014). The central thesis that supported it was to connect the voice of experts in the field of Educational Technology and teacher training, in the context of Argentine public educational policies. I write this in complex times; times of pandemic, of anguish, sadness and uncertainties. I took the impulse to share it in the face of this context that has made many changes in our daily lives. In parallel, demands, requirements and needs arose before them. I add a passionate voice to the conversation whose hashtag (#) is teacher training in times of change and uncertainties to make hear a series of conceptual constructions building in practices that allow conversation, dialogue, reflection, rethinking the trade and teacher training in our country in times of digital culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we work about the sense that the concept of inclusion acquired as a guiding principle of educational policies in the context of progressive governments 2003-2010 in Argentina, Uruguay and Brasil. We describe and analyze some educational policy programs aimed at educational inclusion in those countries based on theoretical contributions and political perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper begins by historicizing certain issues that are put at stake in the extension of mandatory schooling in Argentina, as elaborated in the 2006 National Education Law which, in which from its extension to the end of secondary education it includes more actors and institutions. In order to accomplish this, laws and regulations are analyzed, as well as parliamentary debates and various documents. The second half of this paper accounts for the different circulating meanings regarding to the schooling of those who attend Secondary Level Educational Centers (students, teachers, directors). Since they did not tend to identify youths and adults as subjects of the regulation that establishes compulsory education, it is argued that historical configurations intervene in this stance, configurations that are linked to said command as well as to personal experiences. In this second half of the paper, the records of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two Secondary Level Educational Centers are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the most recent changes in Argentine federalism and the challenges that arise from the migration process from a dual model to a cooperative one. Specifically, it reflects on the political and institutional challenges for the formulation and implementation of public policies and the transformations in terms of articulation of these policies in heterogeneous contexts: large differences between different levels of regional development, and also in terms of political-ideological conception and policy orientation of the highest authorities of the executive in each of the levels of government. In order to analyze these challenges we work over the federal councils, considering them as an instrument that promotes public policy coordination between the national government and the provincial states. In this sense, we explore the transformations of the federal management of educational policy since it provides evidence to identify significant milestones in the process of transformation of the management arrangements of Argentine federalism and, on recent experience, how the consolidation of the Federal Education Council (FEC) contributes to improve the conditions of the joint cooperative model. The paper seeks to contribute to the debate on federalism and intergovernmental relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is contextualized by studies carried by the research team that has analyzed the educative policies in the Province of Cordoba since 1996, focusing the medium level of the educative system. On the undergoing investigation, we intend to move forward to a theoretical synthesis (based on the results of researches and essays) about the change in the educative institutions. In this theoretical framework the research wants to analyze some educative policies posterior to the province government reform directed to regulate secondary school education. The objective is to try advance on the conditions, obstacles, restrictions and potentialities that the educative state regulations have, in order to produce changes in the school institution. The objective is also to observe the possibilities of policy makers to understand the sustainability conditions of the induced innovations. This paper is, on one side, an exposition of the theoretical methodological perspective adopted for the study of the innovations that would be verifying in the secondary school and, on the other side, a synthesis regarding the positions that some researchers hold on the relations between the state educative policies and the change in the schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The incorporation of the New Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into Argentina's education system is at the same time the result of both national and provincial policy as well as other unplanned influences that come from outside of the education's field. Whatever its origin, the incorporation of ICTs into the classrooms reflects a global cultural's change which consists of a qualitative transformation of the ways of our social interaction, the definition of our identities, and the production and circulation of knowledge. On the following paper we will present the main ideas of our future research, which aims to identify and characterize the interpretative communities conformed by students at school. In this way, we aim to study the relationships between students and written culture since the technological model implemented by the educational policy Plan ConectarIgualdad, developed by the national government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze and discuss the implications of intercultural education within contemporary debate. In the first place, we will review the Argentinian legislation. Afterward, we will discuss the core characteristics of the educational system, in order to study the historical incorporation of indigenous people in schools. Then, we will explore the actual legislation about intercultural education with the aim of stressing their potentialities as well as their limitations. Finally, we will present the mainly discussions in the field of Anthropology and Education. From the methodological point of view, this text rest on recent academic sources, widely disseminated and available in virtual environments. All these sources were analyzed regarding the information we reconstruct during our different field works, made in the last decade with indigenous populations of Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The FCH at UNLPam is one of the first universities in the country to give signs of commitment regarding gender. Among these is the Interdisciplinary Institute of Women Studies, created in 1993. In 2008, UNLPam legislates for the use of non-sexist language when applied in the degrees granted. In 2010, in the view of the changes on the Teaching Studies curricula, an Integral Sexual Education Seminar was incorporated; and nowadays, Extracurricular and public lectures are given in the form of Cátedra Libre named Educación Sexual Integral y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos. It emerges along with the local forum for the rights to legal, safe and free abortion. The creation of this Chair reflects the interest in studying the complexities of the bodies, sexuality and gender in education, particularly at schools, as a socializing space in different levels. University functions are not only formative, but also being a central part in formulating public policies in education. This paper attempts to account for the articulation between the activism processes that have been taking place in the city and the accessibility found at the university decision- spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to initiate a reflexion on education as another way of thinking of the May 1810 revolution in Argentina. Such a goal requires returning, among other things, to the objectives of the May Revolution, which were the principles intended for education, what kind of knowledge and skills were believed to be necessary, which was the relationship between education and change and what were the philosophical, political and pedagogical educational paradigms of that time. The insistence of some of the "men of May" about the new government to be based on an also new citizen made them rethink education, in order to ensure the people's access to revolutionary ideas with which they intended to found a new order, and perhaps a nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents partial results of two studies conducted in Mexico and Argentina, aiming at characterizing secondary education from a quantitative-qualitative perspective. A number of concerns about the serious problems that high schools in Mexico face is shared. The main thesis is intended to demonstrate that the problems of secondary education in Mexico and Jalisco are more related to the structure than to the curricular reforms on which policies have been focusing for the secondary level in the last two administrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes and analyzes the performance of the Regional Planning Council of Higher Education (CPRES for its acronym in Spanish) since the enactment of Law 24.521/95 until 2011. Part of a socio-political and institutional perspective of public policy, integrates two approaches, and applies this view to examining the Buenos Aires region in the Province of Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires region represents, together with the metropolitan area, one of the areas with the highest population and economic activity in Argentina. Furthermore, it gathers over a third of the colleges that make up the country's total supply. Documentary sources and interviews to key informants from academic, technical and political fields who took part on the Reform Program of Higher Education in 1995 were analyzed. It was concluded that the Regional Planning Council of Higher Education is established as an structure of an intermediate level of authority with legal and institutional powers to plan, coordinate, and regulate the processes of development and implementation of public policies in the backdrop of a complex and high systemic institutional differentiation. However, it still fails to become effective implementation authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a literature review that considers documents and research work on environmental education (EA) in general, and on EA and legislation in particular, produced at the international, regional and national levels, and guided by the questions: What do works linking EA and education in Argentine legislation contend? In what context, within the EA field, are they inserted? Through the referred reviews we characterize the EA international and Latin American panorama, and analyze the contributions of five articles and a book relevant to our focus on Argentina. Without claiming to have done thorough research, this approach allowed us to perceive the need to deepen the studies that, apart from describing the content of the various laws, analyze its meaning in the historical context in which each regulation was passed, as well as the relationship between forces in the field of environmental education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a literature review that considers documents and research work on environmental education (EA) in general, and on EA and legislation in particular, produced at the international, regional and national levels, and guided by the questions: What do works linking EA and education in Argentine legislation contend? In what context, within the EA field, are they inserted? Through the referred reviews we characterize the EA international and Latin American panorama, and analyze the contributions of five articles and a book relevant to our focus on Argentina. Without claiming to have done thorough research, this approach allowed us to perceive the need to deepen the studies that, apart from describing the content of the various laws, analyze its meaning in the historical context in which each regulation was passed, as well as the relationship between forces in the field of environmental education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid changes in the economic, political, social and technological fields during the last years have had a great impact on the way we do and think geography. This has favored the adoption of different approaches to this object of study from new theoretical and methodological conceptions. Consequently, the agenda of subjects and issues are integrated in school contents, which are included in the curricular designs that constitute an important support for the teaching practice as they are a tool that allows teachers to select, organize and sequence the contents to be taught in an annual plan. In the province of La Pampa, curricular design is based since 2006 on CBC (Basic Core Contents) developed by the National Ministry of Education and on the NAP (Priority Core Learning). To these basic contents we have to add the curricular materials of the Core Curriculum for Secondary School framed in the New Law of Education implemented in our province since 2010. This paper aims at analyzing the role of Geography in the curricular proposals designed for the Province of La Pampa, taking into account the following key concepts: environment, society and territorial organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes and analyses the Journal "La Mañana del Sur" sides with related to the polemic emerged as the result of the new order imposed by the Consejo Provincial de Educación of Neuquén Province, which established that in the public Schools the flag bearer had to be a native Argentine and a patriot. The authors focus on the discursive axes proposed and explicated by the Journal, facing with the new dispositions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fragmented condition of current educational order is a phenomenon that's been studied recently in Argentina. Fragmentation in macro political terms, as an effect of transference of educational services that, from an economic logic didn't recognize the necessary conditions to produce an effective decentralization. A Socio-educational fragmentation expressed in the institutional field with a pronounced social stratification inside schools. Recent social changes are shaping up an idea of the social as a conglomeration of scarcely articulated fragments. Said changes are generating new and deeper social-cultural distances in between the different groups that constitute what once could have been conceived as a "whole". What are the role of political discourse and particularly the role of official discourses in these processes? This paper, starting from an analysis of the official discourse of the province of Córdoba; attempts to show how the official formulations of the educational policy displaced the concept of segmentation from political discourse, generating new meanings for the system and school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to offer a diagnosis of the magnitude and characteristics of educational segmentation, through social inequality in access to educational resources in both public and private education. It shows how children and adolescents in the same educational level have unequal access to resources (rights) according to their socioeconomic status. Taken as an indicator of learning segmentation is the educational offer to which children and adolescents have access in primary and secondary school, aspects promoted in the National Education Law (Law No. 26,206). As well, we will explore social representations concerning the quality of education in public and private schools based on the evaluation made by parents and/or guardians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is part of the Superior Education Politics: between the Social State crisis and the peak of the Neoliberal State. Teaching, investigation and management in the Argentinean university, research project accredited by the SECAT-UNCPBA and the Incentives National Program 2009/11. The general goal of the project is to identify and describe the configurations of the superior education politics developed in Argentina between the Social State crisis and the Peak of the Neoliberal one, tackling the academic teaching and investigating labour with the "new territorial expansions" of the superior education offer, as well as the modalities of the government and the university management in territorial spaces of the southeast of Buenos Aires. The lines of research spreads in certain objects: the academic profession and its development en different scientific and institutional scopes; the government and management practices in the university faculties/degrees and the knowledge circulation-production-reproduction in a superior education marketing context. The work presents progresses of the study in academic, government and Management practices between the middle seventies to the first years of the XXI Century, analyzing continuities and ruptures in teacher departments, programs and disciplines conformation processes. We take into account a weave of politics, actors, power and knowledge struggles in a socio-cultural and territorial space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The incorporation of the notion of interculturality since the 90's in the state context has involved a new position of the State-nation towards indigenous people. Since then, the concept of interculturality —that became central within recognition policy— has been used in the educational field and developed new discourses and practices based on a new premise: the value of the "cultural diversity". The new educational policy has recently incorporated that same premise, but this time in order to transform the neoliberal project based on the analysis of a new law in that area. The aim of this paper is to explore the discourse associated to the intercultural project in the new educational policy considering its theoretical implications and political consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports some findings of a research project that studies the consequences of educational policies in the work of University teachers. Such consequences are shown as deep changes in the 90s, among which teaching practice appears to be comparatively the most affected. What is focused in earlier studies as Evaluation Policies have proven to be, among other things, the implementation of policies for controlling and regulating University teachers' workforce. The Programme of Economic Incentives to research practice is a key referent; however the ordinance regulating teacher's career at UNSL is central for the analysis of working conditions. Likewise, the Auto-evaluation Institutional Programme, which started in the 90s at UNSL, unfolds meaningful data. All together brings about reflections on the situational context and the conditions which, facilitating the strategies imposed for rearranging the capitalist system, allowed that Market logics, conceiving knowledge as a commodity, permeate university institutions and its actors. Consequently, there is a reference to new regulation "prints" leaving its "mark" in the subjectivity of the university teacher as a worker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper puts forward some results of the 2005/2007 research work. The main aim was to know the institutional imaginary of one the experimental chartered schools of the city of San Luis, Argentina. This school system was only implemented in this province of the country as a consequence of the policies of the 90s which had a strong neoliberal ideology. Thus, this work studies the Institutional Imaginary based on imaginary social meanings through the institutional history, which support the institutional culture in the present socio-political context. Chartered schools are a new kind of "public" but privately run schools, in charge of a non-profit Civil Association supported by public funds. These schools have become part of the educational institutional culture by means of management models, organizing structure, working conditions, teaching practices, curricular structure, rules, ideals, values, etc., that generate important new meanings in the culture of educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is intended to analyse teaching practices in the 7th Grade, EGB Cycle, and to suggest clues for the reformulation of teaching and learning strategies to improve the learning quality in handicapped social groups. Suggesting teaching and learning strategies towards this objective involves taking into account the diversity in terms of personal and cultural differences. If the ways of thinking, feeling and behaving of the different social groups are not considered, it will be difficult for those from diverse cultural environment to share and develop significant learning processes. In this way, the strategies to change teaching practices should involve a more integrated perspective which makes up for the segmentation it implies. Thus, it is necessary to consider relatively autonomous institutional spaces which are present in the way of operating a socio-cognitive diagnosis, in the curriculum as a scenario of contradictions and how teachers carry it out as well as its relationship with the community context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows some instances of the differences between the discourse politicians used to legitimate the educational reform in Argentina in the 1990s and the reality of schools by the time the Federal Law of Education was actually enacted and put into practice. These are based on a revision of magazine and newspaper articles on the specific area of technical schools. The construction of a clearly unauthentic "encouraging" framework was a tool which accompanied the implementation of the Federal Law of Education in a popular context that was in fact unfavourable to the changes proposed by the government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the axes of Argentina's educational reform in the 90' was the transformation of the system management, incorporating new organizational principles. One of such principles was the emphasis on school autonomy, evidenced in the importance that educational policies give to the Educational Institutional Project (PEI). This project is presented as a new opportunity for decision making in the schools, which facilitates the involvement and the active intervention of teachers and principals in order to adapt the curriculum and the pedagogic strategies to the local context. The paper contrasts this approach with the processes lived in the schools, in the case of the General Basic Educational 3rd Ciclo implementation, in Great Buenos Aires and Great La Plata. The political discourse about autonomy is contradicted by the provincial policies, which are experienced by the institutional actors as strongly authoritarian and technocratic, impelling changes against the will of teachers and principals, without strategies of negotiation and agreement. The article also examines the processes of PEI formulation, exploring differences among schools, in order to come to conclusions about the institutional conditions that are required to achieve an effective enlargement of school autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to show the political ideological conceptions held by the public education policies in the province of La Pampa between 1984-1996. This period of time is the one beginning with the restoration of democracy and ending with the sanction of the Provincial Law of Education. The eighties were characterized by the reestablishment of institutional order and the attempt to design and establish policies based on the State of Welfare conception. During this period, the search for agreement with the provincial government and the teachers was mediated by the teacher's trade union which obtained historically claimed rights and labour achievements. In the nineties, neoliberal policies and the demands from international organizations give origin to deep changes in the educational system of La Pampa. The trend towards decentralization and the State reform policy account for the structural change implied by a new relationship between State and society. New strategies in the search for support appear; trade unions are no longer the privileged speakers; they have been shifted by the euphemism of «community participation» This analysis tries to trace in the official political discourse evidence of the above mentioned change in the idea of the role of the State in educational matters on the one hand, an on the other, the change in the strategies searching for support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]