Conclusions
• The questionnaire was geared basically to gauging the organisational situation of professional, technical and administrative staff in education and the perspective of teachers’ organisations on this matter. The results proved very relevant, but did not provide all the information needed to draw sufficiently solid and definitive conclusions. Consequently, these conclusions do not have definitive meaning and are far from exhausting the informative and conceptual theme. In the immediate future, it is necessary to continue to move forward resolutely in both directions. • It can nonetheless be said that conceptual and organisational advancements are lacking for the affiliation of the professional, technical and administrative staff, but that this deficit can be overcome with the development of a multi-dimensional
action programme by Education International for Latin America and the affiliated organisations. • The idea that professional, technical and administrative staff are only support personnel and do not participate directly in the educational task has prevailed in society and in the very field of education (and the organisations are not completely on the margin of this view). • The foregoing has led to the conceptual and de facto exclusion of such workers from the discussion. Similarly, the development and implementation of educational plans and programmes in educational education institutions likewise been marginalised. • The changes and crises that are taking place at a systemic level in education and the school require a rethinking, from the Education international for latin america Education support personnel: an integral part of the educational process
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