Proposal for Labor Market Integration of Teachers in Contexts of High Social Vulnerability

The purpose of this paper is to share a proposal for teacher’s labor market integration in contexts of high social5 vulnerability. This paper is the result of a research conducted in a priority attention primary school6 of the central canton of Heredia7. It explored the labor market integration process of teachers, considering the community, family and student reality of a population social risk. The research that supports this proposal is based on a qualitative approach, since the diagnosis process is not intended to provide answers that could be commonly applied to other education centers in similar contexts, but to make an exploratory approach of teachers’ reality and their integration process into education institutions of high social vulnerability. Therefore, although this paper intends to share this experience, it does not aim to unify integration practices, but to be an input in carrying out similar processes.  (5) The concept of high social vulnerability is understood based on Sojo’s approach (2003), which defines it as marginal urban communities in areas considered by the Costa Rican government as priority areas with the greatest social, economic backwardness in the country, and high rates of violence, leisure, unemployment and drug addiction. (6) Translator’s note: The Costa Rican education system is composed of primary education (1st-6th grade) and secondary education (7th-11th grade). (7)A public primary school in the circuit 02 of the Province of Heredia.

VULNERABILIDAD EN LOS ASENTAMIENTOS IRREGULARES DEL AMBA: ANALISIS DE CASO: BARRIO SARMIENTO

Objetivo: Consiste en buscar una metodología adecuada para identificar los criterios y las variables más significativas  que nos permitan reconocer tanto la vulnerabilidad social como la institucional ya que consideramos a la dimensión política como un elemento clave en los procesos para atenuar los niveles de vulnerabilidad de la población. Metodología: Búsqueda, análisis e interpretación de material bibliográfico y documentos de investigación donde se desarrolla el marco teórico a partir de la Teoría Social del Riesgo. Determinación de un número de variables posibles para evaluar la vulnerabilidad social e institucional. La caracterización del barrio se realiza a partir de tres ejes: urbano ambiental, socio económico y organizaciones comunitarias. Visita al barrio Sarmiento. Relevamiento de carácter expeditivo y adecuación de la metodología. Elaboración de las conclusiones. Aportes: Producir conocimiento que contribuya a generar toma de decisiones en la gestión pública para prevenir o contener el proceso de segregación a fin de mitigar los conflictos que esa disociación genera.

Un aporte a la formación humanística desde la perspectiva de la vulnerabilidad socioambiental regional y la gestión de riesgo.

In this article I offer a general analysis of social-environmental vulnerability, considered as a permanent condition of the various scenarios characteristic of our regional realities, and the challenges such vulnerability presents, given the current global, regional, national, and local circumstances. Similarly, I consider the contribution that the analysis of social-environmental vulnerability offers to students of the National University of Costa Rica (UNA).