The State’s modelling systematisation and segmentation in the origin and expansion of the secondary school in Argentina

Abstract

This article examines the hypothesis that the secondary school expansion was based on a simultaneously occurring incorporation-expulsion dynamics where the institutional model focused on the “national high schools” seems to have taken a key role. This paper specifically analyses the process of the State’s modelling systematisation which might have allowed such model to operate as a defining institution in the development of other secondary school forms. The article then explores the effects of the abovementioned systematisation and discusses the form adopted by the segmentation during the secondary school expansion. Both primary sources, i.e. official decrees and regulations, and secondary sources on this subject are quoted.