Strategies for the educational survival of alumni of the technological baccalaureate program of CECyTEJ El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico

Abstract

This article presents a proposal to address the high school dropout phenomenon by understanding the resources used by young people who continue studying in environments with social problems. We used the concept of Educational Survival Strategies to analyze the experiences and school trajectories of graduates of the technological baccalaureate program of Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos del Estado de Jalisco (CECyTEJ) in El Salto, a municipality in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara where we identified that young people have problems to complete that educational level. Our research focused on the sociocultural aspect, using the biographical method to retrieve the voice of our study subjects and institutional analysis as atheoretical approach to understand our subjects’ cultural productions in their passage through the educational institution.