Abstract

DI PIERO, Emilia. Preuniversity schools in Argentina: admission policies and distributive justice. Espac. blanco, Ser. indagaciones [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.2, pp.33-48. ISSN 1515-9485.

In the context of educational fragmentation that characterizes Argentina, in this article we study a particular group of secondary schools: those that depend on national universities. Considering  that this fragment  has  not  been  inves-  tigated in depth, we  provide  a  systema- tization of secondary university institutions in the country and model their policies of admission. Although merit had ceased to be the criterion in Argentina for access to most secondary schools and universities with the democratic recovery in 1983, it remained in force in a specific group of "autonomous" schools. We first present a map of the university secondary schools in the country and then a systematization of the current admission policies. Finally, we focus on the case of the secondary schools of the National University of La Plata, analyzing the views of their teachers about justice in the methods of admission. Between 2012 and 2016 they were made observations, interviewed in depth thirteen central actors to the institutions, made sixty-seven structured interviews to teachers selected randomly and recovered a corpus composed of institutional documents included information on socio- demographic chips of the students.

Keywords : Admission policies - university secondary schools - scholar justice – inequialities - teachers.