Some contributions to understand the sector of professional, technical and administrative staff in education
The employment and organisational situation of education workers who are professional, technical and administrative staff, in particular those who work in the education system, is an issue that is generally little known and little developed by the organisations of teachers, even when they define themselves as being of mixed nature, i.e. that they cover teachers as well as professional, technical and administrative staff. This has been the case historically and could continue to be so with organisational and political costs on the rise. There is a set of problems, however, some historical, other emerging, which preclude continuity, and on the contrary press for a change in behaviour. It has thus occurred in the not too distant past with the issue of female workers in education, gender equality and the educational ins-
titutions, and with the indigenous population and education workers of that origin. As already mentioned, the questionnaire was answered by an important core group of organisations (14), but it is not completely exhaustive in its scope, since it does not encompass all the countries nor all the organisations, for different reasons. The following organisations answered the questionnaire: CTERA (Argentina); CNTE (Brazil); CTEUB (Bolivia); FECODE (Colombia); CPC (Chile); ANDE (Costa Rica); ANDES 21 de junio (El Salvador); STEG (Guatemala); the affiliates of Honduras; CGTEN-ANDEN (Nicaragua); SUTEP (Peru); UNESN (Paraguay); ADP (Dominican Republic); FUM-TEP (Uruguay); FEV (Venezuela). Education international for latin america Education support personnel: an integral part of the educational process
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