Resumo

GLUZ, Nora. La expresión de las políticas sociales en el campo educativo. El caso de las becas estudiantiles para la escuela media. RMIE [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.34, pp.1065-1087. ISSN 1405-6666.

The research we present was dedicated to analyzing the social construction of meanings with regard to the official naming of “scholarship recipients” in schools in Buenos Aires. In the 1990s, scholarship programs were created in Argentina’s secondary schools as a new strategy for dealing with poverty in education, based on the recognition of poverty’s influence on opportunities for remaining in school. Although the program at first glance would seem to represent a step toward creating more democratic educational perspectives for underprivileged sectors, it found its limits in the meanings actors construct around scholarship recipients. Perceived centrally as poor students, they are assigned “the minimum” of what they need, but also of what they would have to be guaranteed.

Palavras-chave : sociology of education; secondary education; social programs; educational discrimination; scholarships; students; Argentina.