Processes of Integration of Higher Level Studies. The case of Teacher Training

Abstract

A correlation exists between current attempts to integrate the University System and Institutes of Teacher Training in Argentina, and policies applied in the 1990s with the passage of the Federal Law of Education and the Law of Higher Education. These policies include the birth of what are known today as Curricular Complementation Cycles or Licensure Cycles which allow graduates of the Institutes of Teacher Training to reach an academic degree level and allow graduates of teaching programs at the Formative Institutes to access graduate level programs. This paper seeks to analyze and understand the effects that policies looking to integrate the higher education system had in the wake of the passage of the National Law of Education and the birth of the National Institute of Teacher Training.