Non-attendance at the CENS: local articulations between norms and ages of life in secondary youth and adult education

This article explores from a socioanthropological approach the meanings and practices attributed to school attendance in secondary youth and adult education, specifically in Secondary Level Educational Centers (CENS) in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA). Based on the analysis of regulations and records of fieldwork in two CENS, it is argued that the ways in which subjects interpret their own and others' reasons for attendance/non-attendance are different according to their ages, which leads to processes of guilt and self-reproach for past and present educational experiences. Thus, although the school regulations do not establish differences between these students, they imply differential experiences, depending on whether they’re young people or adults, since in these institutional modes the categories associated with the different stages of life condense particular meanings and values that interact with other characteristics of school life.

• Main Author: Paoletta, Horacio
• Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• Language: spa
• Published: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2024
• Subjects: School Regulations; Attendance; Life stages; Experiences; Secondary Youth and Adult Education; Normativa escolar; Asistencia; Edades de la vida; Experiencias; Educación secundaria de jóvenes y adultos; Regulamentos escolares; Frequência; Idades da vida; Experiências; Ensino médio para jovens e adultos
• Online Access: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/41339; https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/175153