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Gallart, M.A.
The industrial technical school in Argentina: an assembly model?

Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 2006

(Full text only available in Spanish)

 

Technical education has a long tradition in Argentina, an important portion of the young people who has attended secondary education has been at its classrooms, labs and workshops and many of them have continued studying at university.

After an abandonment period, the re-emergence of productive employment and the renewed support from the State bring about a challenge and an opportunity for technical training. Recent research show the resilience of schools so the time is perfect to reflect about the past, present and future of vocational technical education.

 

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1.
Technical school and its roots

The dilemmas of vocational-technical education
Historical roots of middle education in Argentina
      Quantitative growth of students and curriculum stagnation of post-primary school in Argentina
Technical branch: isomorphism with the industrial school
Maturity: the National Council of Technical Education and the institutional model of National Schools of Technical Education
Deindustrialisation and decadence
Transfer, Educational Reform and technical education

Chapter 2.
The access to technical schools during the boom period: Social mobility, labour insertion and University

Access to technical middle education during the sixties
Educational and occupational inter-generational mobility
Training for middle levels of the industry
The defence of double purpose of technical education: training for work and university
Technical education and nowadays' social mobility

Chapter 3.
The technical schooling institution

Relationship between theory and practice
Technical schools and the impact of the Reform
Differences among schools: public and private, different specialties
      Public and private schools
      Differences among specialties
            Buildings
            Electro-mechanics
            Electronics
Final considerations

Chapter 4.
Technical students' learning

How is knowledge acquired in technical education?
Contents or skills?
Graduate's profile of technical education

Final considerations
Crisis of technical education: danger and opportunity
      Common realities
      Challenges
New technical education: contribution to middle education and identity
      Contributions from technical education to middle education
      Identity of the technical schooling institution in the 21st Century: new technologies and school organisation

Bibliography

 

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