Youth «in the Spotlight». Institutions, Educational Policies and Strategies of Families in Rural-Islander Social Spaces (Argentina)

Resumen

Facing the proposal to generate a contribution to the study of the reproduction of educational inequalities and their relationship with public policies in LatinAmerica and Europe, we aim to reconstruct the experiences of rural youth families within the regulatory framework of compulsory from high school in Argentina. In this sense, the question that guided the writing is: how do families, educational institutions and public policy think, project and standardize the future schooling of young people? The theoretical-methodological perspective from which we present this exchange is relational-dialectical (Achilli, 2000) with the intensive work that socio-anthropological research entails. In this way, the proposals at the crossroads of the fields of anthropology and education and rural anthropology in order understand the complexity of the social processes that rural youth and their families go through. We work with interviews and ethnographic fieldwork as well as bibliographic revisions and archive analysis. As part of the preliminary conclusions, the investigation allows us to identify the way in which the compulsory nature of secondary schooling acquires particularities in the provinces studied from the policies and actions carried out by the governments, which in turn means the appropriation and anticipation of actions by families in the different rural-island social spaces studied, who weave their own strategies, which show a deep interest and commitment totschooling of young people.