Vocational guidance in Argentina (1920-1955): an exercise in the history of the present
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2013v5n9p331Keywords:
career guidance, employability, productivityAbstract
This article examines the multiple and heterogeneous origins of career guidance in Argentina, with the aim of showing that its current configuration is partly singular and partly a reformulation of older themes. Based on the analysis of a corpus formed by historical discourses (1920-1955) and other current ones (1999-2012), originating from the field of specialized knowledge and public policies, the continuities and discontinuities that characterize its problematization are observed: the limitation of its purposes, the persistence of the “theme” of employability, the change between an initial emphasis on the satisfaction of social purposes and the current importance attributed to personal fulfillment, and its continued functioning as a “transactional” strategy, which seeks to adjust individual desires and market demands.
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