WRITTEN CULTURE IN YOUNG PEOPLE PARTICIPANTS OF ALTERNATIVE SOCIO-LABORINSERTION PROPOSALS

Abstract

This work is part of a doctoral research project about the written culture practices of
organized groups of popular economy workers. It has the intention of problematizing the
relationship between oral and writing practices with training proposals for the alternative
organization work. In this case, a complex “communicative event” is analyzed (Hymes,
1974): a plenary session of young workers who carry out productive ventures from a
social organization and who participate in secondary school education spaces for young
people and adults and training in trades groups that the same organization manages in
Greater La Plata, Argentina.
Written culture, as an interwoven set of oral and written practices, is approached as social
practices in context and is configured in the uses of language for social participation
(Kalman, 2004 a), with different manifestations of its materiality (Brandt and Clinton,
2002).
The objective of the article is to reflect uses and appropriations of written culture and
multimodal material manifestations in this communicative event and its development
environment, from the variety of ways in which educators, technicians, leaders and young
people/students deploy their practices of written culture, to raise dilemmatic aspects
and challenges related to their subjectivation as popular economy workers and in terms
of their literate identity.