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Revista electrónica de investigación educativa
On-line version ISSN 1607-4041
Abstract
OTERO, Analia Elizabeth. The Configuration of Youth Transitions: Current Debates about Education and Work. REDIE [online]. 2011, vol.13, n.2, pp.149-165. ISSN 1607-4041.
Studies on the passage from educational institutions to work and adult life have gained momentum in the framework of the employment crisis. Since the 1980s, changes in the situations that affect the life trajectories of contemporary youth have been a topic of discussion. This article addresses such issues by analyzing the educational and work careers of a group of young urban Argentines. The study focuses on a particular moment of their trajectories: that of the transition from high school graduation to higher education and/or work. In this way we attempt to reach a substantive discussion on those discretionary and/or determining factors that can be identified in the configuration of these transitions as well as on the points of tension that were encountered. The research is based on a reconstruction of the experiences of a group of youth (Cohort-2003) from different public and private high schools in townships in the cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata, Argentina, and involves the description given by these young people and their perception of the various scenarios that comprise their traveled paths.
Keywords : Youth; labor trajectories; education and employment.