We are young people and students from the countryside”. An ethnography about formative experiences and secondary education in the north of Entre Ríos

Abstract

We review a doctoral research in which we set out to understand the configuration of the educational experiences of rural youth in a context of extension of compulsory schooling. We carried out the research from the historical-ethnographic approach in a dispersed rural area in the north of the province of Entre Ríos, considering the experiences of young people in relation to the school space and domestic units. Among the contributions, we point out that the schooling of the youths, more than an obligation or a right, is configured as a conquest of the families, which, although it does not promote roots or reduce the growing number of trips to the city, prolongs the stay and facilitates the accreditation of a degree. However, the school is not limited to becoming a waiting stage or reproducing the dominant social relations in rural social space, but rather it stands as a privileged space for sociability and a setting for various experiences of appropriation by young people, who build identifications with the condition of "students from the countryside".