La Educación Secundaria para Adultos y la FP de Grado Medio: ¿Una segunda oportunidad en tiempos de crisis?

Abstract

The recent economic crisis has created a paradoxical situation in the Spanish school system: even though resources decrease, there is a growing demand for education among some sectors of the population. This has brought into focus a phenomenon which is rarely studied in the sociology of education: the return to the school system. This paper studies the recent growth of the so called “secondary education for adults” and vocational training, which are the main ways people without the “minimum” diploma use to return to the school system. The return of these people to the school system is not new, but it seems to have increased recently as a protection strategy against the risk of déclassement and the growing precarisation brought by the economic crisis.