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The government of poverty becomes educational policy and pedagogical approach in schools that develop proposals of education differentiated according to "sex", aimed at children and adolescents from popular sectors. Teachers' conceptions about their work with these sectors are based on a naturalistic and "social" reading of gender, which justifies the physical separation of boys and girls, and the supposed greater effectiveness of the work of educating if the "sex" of the teacher is homologated with that of the students. A pedagogical work is deployed with families in which they are placed as a threat or as possible allies, in terms of social work on gender violence in the family space. Gender policies are thus re-appropriated locally, justifying an organizational and pedagogical model based on physical separation and segregation according to criteria of inequality and differences, which reinforces the fragmentation of the system and segregation processes. The paper is based on a qualitative research developed in a private Catholic school that separates boys and girls in the city of Buenos Aires, and sought to understand the articulation of class and gender in the production of educational inequalities and their approach from the teachers' point of view. [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]