Author: Oscar Daniel Duarte
Co-Authors ⁄ Presenters: Fiori, Natalia
Changes in education policy and teaching work due to the education crisis in Argentina. Reconfiguration and redefinition of state strategies.
This paper aims to highlight, through the analysis of the recent educational policies in Argentina, the reconfiguration of diverse strategies determined from the State. We will study this in the framework of a tendency towards the decomposition of the educational system as a product of a more general crisis of the capitalist mode of production.
In the national case, and with greater emphasis since the 2001 crisis, a series of initiatives were developed by the State that sought; on the one hand, to respond to a reorganization of the system due to a new type of social requirement; on the other, to redefine teaching work in this new context.
In this way, policies of social containment, of school retention and of inequality compensation delivered from school were accelerated. The new programmatic orientation for education modified the traditional teaching role of "the one who teaches" by converting it, first, into a "social container", and then transforming it into a "facilitator" for the acquisition of new skills.
These changes were established in parallel to a total pauperization of labor and salaries among teachers that modified, in recent years, the living and working conditions of this sector.