The Educational Reform in Argentina: A Look at the Labor Trajectories and Teaching Conditions

• Main Authors: Orlanda Señorino, Susana Mabel Cordero
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2005-11-01
• Series: Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa
• Subjects: Reforma educativa; docentes; trayectorias laborales; condiciones de trabajo docente; profesionalización.
• Online Access: http://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/132

<p class="p1">Eleven years after the implementation of Argentina’s Federal Law of Education, this paper offers a critical analysis of the impact this educational reform has had on the career paths and working conditions of teachers in the Argentine educational system. The changes brought about in the economic and political field, the redefinition of the relationship between State and Society, and its impact on the labor market constitute the framework or context for our study of the reform. We maintain the methodology of analyzing <em>labor trajectories</em>, in order to recover the voices of the protagonists, in an attempt to break with the representations built from an external view only. We have attempted, through a cooperative construction of meaning, to capture the dynamic aspects by relating the social practice of the actors with the structural aspects already mentioned.</p>