Coexistence and educational inclusion. Challenges in the face of a scenario of expanded rights

Abstract

In the present article, we describe the development a project that was carried out in a Provincial Institute of Technical Education (IPET) of the city of Córdoba, Argentina, which aimed at addressing the problem of school coexistence and inclusion in a context of political and institutional expansion of the right to education, reconfiguration of intergenerational relationships, and the right to an equal inclusion of differences. The proposal consisted in a university outreach project carried out from March to November of 2016, whose objective was to promote the socio-educational inclusion of young people and to re-elaborate strategies and projects with educators to strengthen their educational careers. The target population were two groups of first-year students, who attended morning classes, and one group of second-year students, who attended classes in the afternoon. To this end, participatory action research was incorporated as a coadjutant strategy to create activities that implied active participation at school and in the process of promoting coexistence, generating meeting spaces with adults. In order to do this, following a collaborative psychosocial approach, we carried out workshops to identify and address problems from a youth perspective.