The techniques of the informatics workers: Formal, non formal and informal education in the production of software

YANSEN, GUILLERMINA; DUGHERA, LUCILA; SEGURA, AGUSTIN; ZUKERFELD, MARIANO

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Conferencia; The 9th GLOBELICS International Conference. Creativity, Innovation and economic development. Buenos Aires, 2011.; 2011

The Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (Globelics).

This  paper  intends,  on  one  side,  to  describe  in  higher  detail  the  relationship  between informatics workers (those involved in the productions of software and related services) and  the  world  of  academic  titles.  But,  on  the  other  side,  tries  to  shine  a  light  on  the origins of the working techniques effectively used by these workers. Some of them have an origin in interrupted bachelor careers; others have been acquired in specific courses, while most of them come from learning in their  early  socialization, learning by doing at the workplace and self-taught investigation during leisure time. We will try to specify the characteristics of the informal and formal paths thru which the IT workers acquire their  subjective  abilities.  Despite  this,  the  mere description  of  the  empirical  results  of our  fieldwork  in  Buenos  Aires  city  would  conclude  in  a  failed  interpretation  of  the phenomenon. Given this, one final objective of this paper is to locate our results in the bigger picture of the transformations which are taking place in capitalistic economies.