Young people and Adults´ Secondary School Teachers facing Educational Inclusion

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Keywords:

lifelong learning, secondary level, educational inclusion, social representations

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the social representations of teachers about the processes of educational inclusion in secondary education for youth and adults. This approach is built on the basis of the inclusion of sectors that were excluded from the possibility of exercising the right to education. The ways in which teachers give meaning to inclusion is what we want to know, through the conceptual framework provided by the theory of social representations. The methodology combined qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies. The findings lead to affirm that social representations of teachers are complex and are traversed by contradictory conceptions. There is confidence in the possibilities of transforming and improving life opportunities offered by education, while underlying characteristics of a school closer to reproductivism positioning notions and meritocratic perspective.

Author Biographies

  • Angelina Maselli, National University of Cuyo
    Docente-investigadora de la Universidad del Aconcagua y Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Educación de Jóvenes y Adultos - Políticas Públicas. Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, Argentina
  • Mercedes Molina, National University of Cuyo

    Investigadora del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) y docente-investigadora de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Educación de Jóvenes y Adultos – Género – Derechos Humanos

  • Ana Pimenides

    Centro de Investigaciones de la Universidad del Aconcagua. Luján, Mendoza, Argentina

How to Cite

Young people and Adults´ Secondary School Teachers facing Educational Inclusion. (2015). Praxis Educativa, 19(3), 53-61. https://ojs.unlpam.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/praxis/article/view/1078