Socio-educational research in Argentina: a brief historical account and current situation

Abstract

Cooperation among Argentine and Japanese educational researchers goes without much precedent. The most relevant work dates from some decades ago, written by Marcela Mollis (1990), and is on universities in both countries within the framework of a training scholarship program . This cooperation marks a new chapter thanks to a global academic event held in 2014 , in which Asian-particularly Japanese-and Argentine researchers exchanged views on the problems of educational expansion of secondary schools in these two different regional contexts. The purpose of this brief work is to make public to those unfamiliar with the educational realities of distant geographies, the contributions of the sociology of education in Argentina, as well as the main concerns today. This work is far from exhaustive, but it does seek to encourage to find points of dialog and cooperation with researches which objects of study are education systems and the realities they cross.