Approaching the social recruiting of teachers from a comparative analysis in three jurisdictions: Buenos Aires City, La Pampa and Santa Cruz

  • Graciela Cervi
  • Pilar Calatayud

Keywords:

teachers, middle classes, social position, social structure, social recruitment

Abstract

In Argentina, teachers have traditionally been characterized as part of the middle class or the petty bourgeoisie, depending on the theoretical perspective. This char­acterization is usually based on the pre­dominantly female composition of teach­ers as a group and on their character of wives of that portion of the population that occupies “relatively important posi­tions in the social structure”. However, few studies have attempted to account for this hypothesis and most of them are based on unrepresentative samples. In this paper we present an exercise based on a comparison of census data for three ju­risdictions which have different features both in the recruitment of teachers and in their specific social and economic struc­tures: Ciudad de Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Santa Cruz.

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Author Biographies

Graciela Cervi

Licenciada y Profesora en Ciencias de la Educación (UNC). Maestranda en Investigación Educativa que dicta el CEA Centro de Estudios Avanzados de U.N.C. Docente e Investigadora en el Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, con evaluación y subsidio de S.E.C.Y.T de UNC.

Pilar Calatayud

Magíster en Ciencias Sociales y Licen­ciada en Ciencias de la Educación (UNC). Docente de la Cátedra de Pedagogía en la Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación y es Directora de una escuela primaria de la Municipalidad de Córdoba. Investi­gadora del Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, con evaluación y subsidio de S.E.C.Y.T de UNC. 

Published

2012-08-02

How to Cite

Cervi, G., & Calatayud, P. (2012). Approaching the social recruiting of teachers from a comparative analysis in three jurisdictions: Buenos Aires City, La Pampa and Santa Cruz. Praxis Educativa, 16(1), 46–54. Retrieved from https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/praxis/article/view/393

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