Challenges of the Colombian educational system for the implementation of the policy of prevention and eradication of child labor

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https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.26.3307

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educational policy, child labor, educational institutions, social problems

Abstract

Avoiding ruptures in educational trajectories due to social problems demands synergic actions between social policy and educational policy. This research gives an account of the elements that affect the articulation between these two policies, based on an instrumental case study that deepens the difficulties in the implementation process of the commitments assigned by the policy of prevention and eradication of child labor to the system educational. For the reconstruction of the case, policy documents of the last two decades were analyzed and 42 actors were consulted at different levels of the education and protection system in Colombia and Bogotá. It is found that the knowledge and interpretation of child labor, the articulation between the different levels of the educational system, and the technical and operational capacity of the actors that must implement the actions established by the policy of prevention and eradication of child labor inside the educational institutions, are indispensable factors to respond in a pertinent way to the reality of working students.

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Ingrid Anzelin, Universidad de La Sabana

Psicóloga, especialista en análisis de política pública de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Magister en problemáticas sociales infanto juveniles de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Investigadora del grupo de investigación Sociopolítica, cultura y ambiente.

Jefferson Galeano Martinez, Universidad de La Sabana

Licenciado en Biología, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.

Magister en Educación de la Universidad de La Sabana.

Investigador del grupo Educación y Educadores.

Ciro Hernando Parra Moreno, Universidad de La Sabana

Doctor en Pedagogía, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, España.

Director del grupo de investigación Educación y Educadores

Published

2018-06-25

How to Cite

Anzelin, I., Martinez, J. G., & Parra Moreno, C. H. (2018). Challenges of the Colombian educational system for the implementation of the policy of prevention and eradication of child labor. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 26, 74. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.26.3307

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