Workshops with teachers, networks between secondary schools and UNC

Abstract

This paper outlines the experience of the workshops titled "Educational Projects after Secondary School: Tools from the Academic Advise Guidance Field," aimed at teachers from secondary schools. These workshops have been conducted since 2013 by the Department of Academic Guidance in collaboration with the Department of Support for Academic Careers under the Secretariat of University Welfare and Modernization at the National University of Córdoba. 
We view these workshops as outreach programs as they serve as discussion and learning spaces, where we collectively build knowledge with participating teachers about the challenges, dilemmas, and strategies involved in classrooms when guiding students in creating their own educational and/or career paths after completing secondary school.
Many of the young people who attend public secondary schools in our province do not consider studying at university among their desirable or feasible horizons, both due to economic as well as symbolic and social factors. Therefore, one of the challenges in the workshops held with teachers is to collaborate on intervention strategies that make it possible to address the tensions between the possibilities of studying and the conditions to do so, in order to broaden those horizons. Central to this is the work with teachers as key protagonists in the school setting.