A look into the future of professional, technical, and administrative staff in education
Context Society, the educational institution, and educators are confronted with growing problems resulting from the organisation and functioning of the capitalist system in its globalised, neoliberal phase, but also due to an imbalance between the characteristics of scientific and technical developments and the forms of the teaching and learning process, as well as the characteristics that education is assuming in present-day society. As we know, the educational institution is not the only area in which education takes place, and it may even be on the way out as the dominant locus, before others such as the media of communication, the Internet and networking in general. The rationale of the current capitalistic society generates and fuels
processes that we can consider to be perverse and contradictory. There is an attempt to include the largest number of young people and adolescents in classrooms at all educational levels, but the opportunities for inclusion, employment and adequate income for graduates are increasingly more scarce and precarious. Young, educated adults are hardest hit by unemployment in the world today in all countries, which shows with clarity that we are dealing with a systemic problem and not with particular national realities, even if this is felt more acutely in certain countries (such as Spain). The massification of education in the 20th century which provided social mobility for all, is gradually being dispelled, and education is ceasing to be the vehicle that would enable the poor and excluded to get out of their situation, but is increasingly tending to reproduce the social segmentation Education international for latin america Education support personnel: an integral part of the educational process
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