Networks and agencies in the training processes of a profesional in a rural-urban context in the state of Morelos
Published 2017-01-02
Keywords
- Desventaja,
- oportunidades,
- redes,
- agencia,
- formación profesional
- Disadvantage,
- opportunity,
- network,
- agency,
- professional training
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Abstract
This contribution analyzes the network practices of graduates of the bachelor’s in educational Intervention in a headquarters of the National Pedagogical University in the state of Morelos, Mexico. These networks promoted agency processes that allowed young people from rural and rural-urban areas with socioeconomic disadvantages to accessing higher education and become professionals. It is argued that the offer of an educational program or the individual agency is not enough for the training processes in rural and rural-urban sectors to be successful. The young people in this study were able to take advantage of the structural opportunities thanks to the networks and relationships that they were building along with their trajectories. The networks allowed them to establish links with other people that influenced the choice of career, the link to find jobs and in the creation of groups to face the uncertainties of the labor market in collective. A qualitative study was carried out based on ethnographic techniques for data collection. In-depth interviews, informal talks and participant observations were conducted. The data were analyzed with the grounded theory approach of Glaser and Strauss (1967) and Strauss and Corbin (1998). The results allow us to argue that without networks the educational controllers can hardly be successful.
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