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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]

Education is an ideological activity which responds to theoretical, political, cultural, socioeconomic and historical circumstances. Thus neither pedagogical practices nor educational theories are neutral as both are firmly based on paradigmatic conceptions of man and on their worldviews. There is then a need to analyze both of them and their intertwining relationships in the light of philosophy, politics and education in order to carefully consider what their aims actually are. These goals give sense and meaning to Institutional Educational Projects (PEI, by its acronym in Spanish), which generally respond to the requirements of the Ministry of Culture and Education. This paper studies the philosophical foundations underlying the PEIs of the first and second levels at a Basic General Education school in General Pico, La Pampa, and provides a cogent interpretation of the anthropological idea that lies beneath such projects in order to generate an open space for debate and inquiry at an institutional level and to foster new proposals to improve educational practices in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to describe the managing characteristics shared by schools of the first and second Basic General Education levels as a result of the implementation of the educational reform in La Pampa. To the purpose of this research, we analyzed the institutional guidelines set by headmasters and compared the conclusions stated in our previous research (1995-1999) with results from recent case studies. In most of the schools included in our sample we observed the recurrence of similar skewed contextual readings and managing practices. These particular managing styles reflect the principals' key role in the adaptation of the Institutional Educative Projects (IEP), requested by the central administration, to the different schools' needs. As a conclusion, we can say that, despite the institutional difficulties faced by those in charge of managing positions, the school headship is the possible space where to generate deconstructing and reconstructing policies via alternative projects and managing groups who can reconsider our institutional history and provide a new significance to the established educational practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]