Inclusive educational policies in times of crisis

Reflections of the Inclusion/Termination and Job Training Program for Young People from 14 to 17 years old (PIT)

Abstract

During the kirchneristas governments (2003-2015),
several modifications were carried out in the educational system. In this direction, the promulgation of the National Education Law N° 26206/06, promotes the extension of the secondary level completely. This implied that provincial jurisdictions carried out strategies to attend to this extension of rights. As regards the province of Cordoba, one of the devices that was created is the Program for the Inclusion and Completion of Secondary Education and Labor Training for Young People from 14 to 17 years old (PIT 14-17). It was dedicated to students with discontinuous school trajectories that they couldn’t go into adult modalities because they weren’t 18 years old yet. Our research focused on characterizing the process of materializing the PIT in a secondary school in Cordoba city, based on the analysis of the official discourse program and the meanings and relationship assigned to it by both: technical teams and actors who have participated in its implementation. It's important to remark that this analysis was achieved in the return of neoliberal governments in Argentina and Latin America.