Theory and practice in secondary schools in Argentina: knowledge, experience or work practices?

RIQUELME, GRACIELA C.; HERGER, NATALIA; SASSERA, JORGELINA

Valencia

Conferencia; 3rd Crossing Boundaries in VET conference, Vocational Education and Training Network (VETNET); 2019

Universidad de Valencia

This paper aims to interpret the meaning and orientation of practices for the transition to the world of work, as a compulsory curricular area of the secondary technical and vocational education in Argentina. The conceptual analysis is centred on the relationship between theoretical education and practice during the learning trajectory in the secondary and technical level and questions the meaning of practices, as a mean for the students to bring into play knowledge about socio-productive processes related to the work environment.The results of researches of the PEET-IICE/UBA/CONICET allow for considering the objective conditions for the transition to the world of work in the context of provincial, economical and social inequalities and institutional differentiation in technical education. Finally, the article proposes the interpretation of the behavior of some schools according to the modalities of training, level of consolidation, size, institutional profiles and the implementation of practices according to the social and economical conditions of their specific territories.