Publications

Gallart, M.A.
Twenty years of education and work: research on training and training of a researcher

Montevideo: Cintefor, 2002
386 p. (On Arts and Crafts, 2)

ISBN 92-9088-136-4

(Full text only available in Spanish in pdf format)

 

This book includes a selection of texts published by the author since 1982 concerning the articulation between training and work in Latin America. The articles cover a variety of topics which have been ordered so as to introduce a comprehensive outlook. The book approaches the subject matter by establishing the historical dilemma between educational changes and labour transformation upon which the fundamental concepts of the research are built.
After that, the results of studies focused on substantial aspects are displayed, especially those regarded as being of key importance throughout this period: secondary and post-secondary technical education, critical objective groups for training interventions and finally public policies concerning vocational training and its relationship with the labour market. In every case there appears an analysis of the action taken by the involved social actors as well as the implied challenges for bringing in equity and productivity to Latin American societies. The last part includes the latest articles situated on the existing reality at the turn of the century. These articles focus on the conjunction between the expansion of educational enrolment and the growing difficulties of employment in the nineties, and on the role enterprises and the public sector play in vocational training, their possibilities and contradictions.
In the end, there is a reflexive look upon the steps taken, the applied methodologies, questions arising throughout the text and future perspectives for training and research.

This anthology may prove useful to those interested in a key area such as the link between formal education, vocational training and the labour world whether as direct actors, as persons in charge of social policies, or as researchers and evaluators of experiences carried out in this field.

 

INDEX

Presentation

Conceptual approach
I. Basic concepts of the analysis on education-work relationship
    I.1 The interaction between educational sociology and labour sociology, (1997)
    I.2 Training, education and employment, a necessary relationship (1996)

Fundamental topics
II. Technical education: school and work
    II.1 The role of technical education in Argentina: a quanti-qualitative approach (1989)
    II.2 The articulation between formal education and work in regular technicians in the construction industry in Buenos Aires (1982)

III. Technological education: higher education for work
    III.1 Higher technological education in Argentina (1995)
    III.2 Occupational "niches" of tertiary technicians: profiles as seen from demand (1998)

IV. Critical target groups
    IV.1 The challenges of poor youth social integration: the response of training programmes in Latin America (2000)
    IV.2 Women employment in popular sectors (1992)

V. Public policies and training
    V.1 The role of labour training in social policies
    V.2 Training, education and unemployment in Argentina (1995)

The situation by the end of the period
VI. Quantitative dynamics of education and the labour market
     VI.1 Education and employment in Great Buenos Aires: 1991-1999 (2002)

VII. The role of the State and enterprises in vocational training
     VII.1 The articulation between the public sector and private enterprises in Latin American vocational training (2001)

Methodological grounds
VIII. Building up a research strategy
     VIII.1 Method integration and qualitative methodology. A reflection based on research practice (1992)

Final reflections
Bibliography of the included texts
Publications by María Antonia Gallart

 

 

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