Abstract

ARGUELLO NEVADO, Dalia Carolina. The Technological High School Diploma in the Face of the Transformation of Knowledge, Work, and Professional Training. Rev. latinoam. estud. educ. [online]. 2025, vol.55, n.3, pp.69-90.  Epub Oct 21, 2025. ISSN 2448-878X.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rlee.2025.55.3.775.

This article analyzes the largest technological upper secondary education subsystem in Mexico and one of the largest in Latin America, composed of CETIS and CBTIS, within the context of Mexican economic tertiarization (1980-2012). Using the methodology of sociocritical history of education, it examines the transformations of technological baccalaureate in relation to educational, technological, demand and labor management changes, and the evolution of the concept of work itself. Curricular modifications and principles that validate social divisions between occupations and required knowledge are observed. The analysis questions stigmatizing views about its supposed low quality and relevance, associated with corporate and individualistic logics derived from Human Capital Theory, which allowed for valuing the richness of educational processes and the formative contributions of these technological institutions from other perspectives.

Keywords : technical education; high school; human capital; educational policy; education and work.

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