Meritocracy and Leadership: The Keys to Social and Educational Change According to Enseñá por Argentina

Abstract

This chapter reveals our history, two former Pexas (Professionals of Enseñá por Argentina) in the period 2011–2013, and connects our personal experiences with our appreciation of Teach For All’s Argentina project: Enseñá por Argentina (ExA). Although we, Adriana and Victoria, have similar backgrounds, we had different experiences in ExA, whic is why our comments about this NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) will be different. Nevertheless, we have a similar discursive critique about what was “taught” during the program from different points of view about the logic of ExA. Victoria finished the program and returned three years later as a tutor for the SIF (Summer Initial Seminar of Formation 2015), whereas Adriana submitted her resignation after six months of work through ExA in 2012. This chapter contextualizes the organization “Teach For All” (TFAll) in Argentina and focuses in the inconsistencies between ExA’s change theory and innovative pedagogy, and the real teaching training and classroom practices that took place during the second cohort of ExA.