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All adolescents learn in Argentina

UNICEF Country Office

Argentinien: Schulabschluss auf dem Land per Internet Ein Klassenzimmer ohne Lehrer – für viele Jugendliche in Deutschland vielleicht ein Traum. Für Schülerinnen und Schüler, die in den teilweise sehr abgelegenen Regionen Argentiniens leben, ist das die Realität.
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What do we do?

We are driven to ensure that adolescents access and complete secondary education and acquire essential knowledge and fundamental, transferable and digital skills to develop and participate in their communities and society now and in the future. For this purpose, we promote adolescent-centered innovative educational models and support the training of secondary-level teachers and institutional teams in urban and rural areas.

Nevertheless, these efforts to improve learning are incomplete unless they include adolescent participation. Adolescents are the lead actors in their development process and active agents in spurring necessary changes in education. Therefore, we need to design policies and develop tools to create opportunities for participation and empowerment that will enable adolescents to be informed and heard on issues that concern them.

Learn about our work

We have set out to strengthen the adolescent education agenda, emphasizing adolescents living in the most vulnerable conditions. We support national and provincial educational governments and provide them with financial support to advance their agenda in favour of adolescents, specifically:

  • Providing adolescents with equitable and inclusive opportunities to enroll in and complete secondary education.
  • Ensuring that adolescents acquire the fundamental, transferable, and digital skills required in the 21st century.
  • Offering adolescents from hard-to-reach communities alternative school connectivity solutions.
To this end, we focus on:

  • Implementing flexible, inclusive and quality educational models for adolescents that teach them fundamental, transferable and digital skills for the 21st century, with emphasis on reducing gender, social and territorial disparities.
  • Strengthening Technology-based Rural Schools (Secundarias Rurales Mediadas por Tecnologías) and PLaNEA, a New School for Adolescents.

  • Training technical teams, managers and teachers to develop educational models and new adolescent-centered teaching and learning practices, with emphasis on ensuring fundamental knowledge (mathematics, language, social and natural sciences), technology integration, comprehensive sex education, civic skills and STEM competencies, especially among adolescents.

Implementing strategies to actively search for and re-engage out-of-school adolescents through MUNA (Municipality United for Children and Adolescents), a capacity-building strategy targeting local agents.