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Jacinto, C. y Gallart, M.A. (coord.)
For a second opportunity: training for the work of vulnerable youth

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 1998
341 p.

 

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Current economic and social transformations propose challenges that deeply question the articulation between education, both formal and informal, and the world of labour. Two big topics dominate this questioning. The first of them is the transformation of work organisation and working relations, with its demands for flexibilisation, polyvalence and competency to resolve situations of uncertainty; training must respond to these demands with new strategies. The second is the problem of exclusion from social participation; the existence of ample sectors of the population in conditions of poverty with the consequence, among others, of early abandonment from formal education. The youth that desert school only gain access to the most precarious and unstable jobs and are the first to be unemployed, and are in that situation more consistently. Another great challenge of education is to respond to the needs of training in these sectors, but pointing out that the creation of job positions and the increase of opportunities for job insertion in qualified occupations are essential in order for training to turn out to be useful to them. Multiple programmes in Latin America, point in this direction. The present volume reviews experiences selected by investigators from a group of countries of the region. This set of works offers an interesting "state of the art" on training for youth in a situation of poverty, at the same time as they bring up a series that should be investigated in the future.

 

 

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