Secondary and Evening Secondary: between absences and schedule cuts

Abstract

In this work we will describe some of the characteristics of the afternoon secondary school, focusing on the vicissitudes in which it was immersed since the return to “full presence”. This presentation is framed in the advances made in our doctoral research process (carried out with a CONICET 2020-2025 Doctoral Scholarship for strategic topics, based at the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos  en Contextos Urbanos de la Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, UNR), where we We propose to analyze the socio-affective relationships built, at school, by young people who live in contexts of urban poverty and go through their secondary schooling in public secondary schools with evening/night shifts in the city of Rosario (province of Santa Fe, Argentina). We develop the research from the relational socio-anthropological approach. On this occasion we focus on the description of one of the schools where we carried out field work. It is a night-time at Escuela Secundaria Orientada attended by young people between 14 and 23 years old. We focus on some of the difficulties they face in sustaining the course. Finally, we describe how the evening shift schedule has been reorganized in recent years, which, we consider, constantly appears in relation to the context of conflict and violence that the city of Rosario is experiencing.