The Education of Youth and Adults and the “Trade School Program”: Problematizations on the meanings of work and the pedagogical proposal

Abstract

In this article we present findings of the research “Adult Education and the Trade School Program: characteristics of the proposal and its implementation in the province of Buenos Aires”. This Program, created in 2017 and interrupted during the 2020 pandemic, as a public policy of the Directorate of Adult Education of the Province of Buenos Aires, addressed the relationship between education and work with a teaching proposal that contemplated articulations between different institutions (CENS, FINES and Vocational Training Centers) and between teachers and instructors. The three-year curricular design offered a double degree: at the
secondary level and, simultaneously, in some trade. In the research work based on qualitative logic, we conducted interviews with different participants of the Program in two districts of the province of Buenos Aires. This article brings reflections about the political-pedagogical meanings associated with the process of construction of pedagogical couples as a teaching strategy of the Program; process that expressed the linkage between the knowledge of general training and that of the trade, and that we situate in the framework of the problems of school education for young people and adults in Argentina.