Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Cross, María Cecilia
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2011 - 2018
Idioma
spa
Extent
339 p.
Derechos
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Formato
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Identificador
Cobertura
1019462
Florencio Varela (inhabited place)
2011 - 2018
Abstract
This doctoral thesis analyzes the meanings that educational inclusion acquires at the Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ), an institution located in Florencio Varela, in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. The time period considered begins in 2011, the year of its foundation, and extends until 2018.
Our working hypothesis is that the educational inclusion category organizes social relations in UNAJ, since, for those who inhabit it (faculty, staff and students), this University has the purpose of promoting educational inclusion in higher education. This notion, albeit it´s polysemy nature, has implications in the implementation of institutional practices, in singular experiences, while it establishes certain limits about what is considered fair and possible. Hence, we take as a theoretical reference the concept of “value community” developed by Ricoeur (2006) and used by Cross (2008).
This thesis’s research is based on a single case study (Yin, 1984). Within this theoretical-methodological strategy, we used different data collection and analysis techniques that allowed us to reconstruct the supports on which the discourses (personal and institutional, spoken and written) about the uniqueness of the university as an educational project are built, and the practices that are deployed there, as well as the experiences of authorities and staff, faculty and students.
Yin (1994) argues that the case study should be carried out immersed in its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between the phenomenon and its context are not clear. On the other hand, a value community is not understood only by analyzing the discourses of its members and their shared experiences, but rather it is necessary to consider the different meanings that circulate in a certain sociocultural field. In accordance with these theoretical-methodological guidelines, the thesis starts by situating the debate about the concept of educational inclusion, highlighting its political and academic meanings, especially those related to the establishment of the so-called "third wave" universities, UNAJ among them.
Then, we present and analyze the justifications of a series of institutional practices that, from the point of view of authorities and staff, faculty and students, explain its uniqueness: pastoral care practices for the students that take place outside the classrooms, admission guidance, faculty practices related to teaching and assessment, and the characteristics of the university academic system.
The work carried out in this thesis allows us to understand that in this university educational inclusion, in its different connotations, organizes daily life, as well as the justification of practices and also its tensions and resistances. If something must be included, it is because it is outside, unlike those who must include, who are inside. The dilemma is then expressed in terms of who should move, in what direction and in what way in order to avoid this exteriority/exclusion. Likewise, this dilemma is permanently recovered to give meaning to the expectations about what it means to be faculty and students, but also between staff and authorities, and to differentiate themselves from other higher education institutions.
Furthermore, the university trajectory is thought of as a particular moment in the lives of students in transit towards insertion in different fields. One implies the tension between that otherness of origin of those applicants who are "outside" and must become students, an other the heterogeneity of professional and disciplinary insertions for which they prepare, with greater force towards the end of their careers, are processes that go through reflections. and they give meaning to the ways in which the institutional project and small personal challenges are managed on a daily basis.
In this dialectic between the inside and the outside, a massive, close, dynamic and reflective university is built and sustained, which offers very innovative interpretive keys to think about higher education in our country.
Our working hypothesis is that the educational inclusion category organizes social relations in UNAJ, since, for those who inhabit it (faculty, staff and students), this University has the purpose of promoting educational inclusion in higher education. This notion, albeit it´s polysemy nature, has implications in the implementation of institutional practices, in singular experiences, while it establishes certain limits about what is considered fair and possible. Hence, we take as a theoretical reference the concept of “value community” developed by Ricoeur (2006) and used by Cross (2008).
This thesis’s research is based on a single case study (Yin, 1984). Within this theoretical-methodological strategy, we used different data collection and analysis techniques that allowed us to reconstruct the supports on which the discourses (personal and institutional, spoken and written) about the uniqueness of the university as an educational project are built, and the practices that are deployed there, as well as the experiences of authorities and staff, faculty and students.
Yin (1994) argues that the case study should be carried out immersed in its real-life context, especially when the boundaries between the phenomenon and its context are not clear. On the other hand, a value community is not understood only by analyzing the discourses of its members and their shared experiences, but rather it is necessary to consider the different meanings that circulate in a certain sociocultural field. In accordance with these theoretical-methodological guidelines, the thesis starts by situating the debate about the concept of educational inclusion, highlighting its political and academic meanings, especially those related to the establishment of the so-called "third wave" universities, UNAJ among them.
Then, we present and analyze the justifications of a series of institutional practices that, from the point of view of authorities and staff, faculty and students, explain its uniqueness: pastoral care practices for the students that take place outside the classrooms, admission guidance, faculty practices related to teaching and assessment, and the characteristics of the university academic system.
The work carried out in this thesis allows us to understand that in this university educational inclusion, in its different connotations, organizes daily life, as well as the justification of practices and also its tensions and resistances. If something must be included, it is because it is outside, unlike those who must include, who are inside. The dilemma is then expressed in terms of who should move, in what direction and in what way in order to avoid this exteriority/exclusion. Likewise, this dilemma is permanently recovered to give meaning to the expectations about what it means to be faculty and students, but also between staff and authorities, and to differentiate themselves from other higher education institutions.
Furthermore, the university trajectory is thought of as a particular moment in the lives of students in transit towards insertion in different fields. One implies the tension between that otherness of origin of those applicants who are "outside" and must become students, an other the heterogeneity of professional and disciplinary insertions for which they prepare, with greater force towards the end of their careers, are processes that go through reflections. and they give meaning to the ways in which the institutional project and small personal challenges are managed on a daily basis.
In this dialectic between the inside and the outside, a massive, close, dynamic and reflective university is built and sustained, which offers very innovative interpretive keys to think about higher education in our country.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales