Vocational education and training and intervention and regulation policies in Argentina

RIQUELME, GRACIELA CLOTILDE ; HERGER, NATALIA; SASSERA, JORGELINA

Berna

Conferencia; Pathways in Vocational Education and Training and Lifelong Learning. Proceedings of the 4th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training; 2021

Argentina has strong provincial inequalities resulting from a historic disparity in productive performance that coincide with high economic and social heterogeneity among and within provinces. The analysis of provincial and local social and economic conditions for the insertion in the world of work, allow toconsider differential situations among areas according to the main productive sector, the labour markets? demands, populations size and relative living conditions, as well as the spaces or types of practices to be developed. What is the meaning of education and vocational training in a country like Argentina with growing dualization, polarization, segmentation and economic and social exclusion facing crisis exacerbation due to pandemic? In this context, it is necessary to respond to workers? educational needs and to multiple economic and technological demands derived from the country´s recovery alternatives. The possibility of participating again in the 4th International Conference Crossing Boundaries in Vocational Education and Training, responds to the advantages of comparative education approaches within Europe and from another continent. This allows recognizing regularities, problems, agency and actors trends in different systems. In the case of a country, it is possible to apply analytical strategies to inequalities and differences between the provincial states. Our research orientations and practices of transfer to VET´s management bodies coincide with: the need to recognize singularities, identifying strengths and needs of improvement and the recognition of gaps; understanding of the role played by the different institutions, agencies and actors involved; and characterizing margins and possible spaces for regulation of TVET bodies, all topics included in this call for 2021 Conference.