Subjects, rights and transformations: Wiews and questions from educational research

The article is part of the project entitled "Institutions under Construction, Subjects and Experiences in Context. Tensions and Openings in Times of Demands for Equality" (Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Science and Technology, National University of Cordoba, (Argentina) 2016-2017) and makes progress in the readings of fieldwork material from a human rights perspective. Based on previous research routes, the aforementioned project is proposed as a stage focusing on the study of educational institutions, their processes and recent transformations, in times that we have called "demands for equality", and retrieves records that have been analyzed in their local contexts. The methodology takes a qualitative approach with a socio-anthropological slant. Fieldwork is harnessed to recover situations, stories and reflections from social and educational actors that account for the way in which the expansion of rights at various levels ran through institutional life, generated new positions and led to recognitions of children and young people as "subjects of rights". These processes have given rise to tensions that express the conflictive nature of these transformations and latent controversies in the social set. Three records are analyzed: the first is entitled "Youth and Memory", linked to the struggles for Memory, Truth and Justice; the second "Childhood and School" regarding the constitution of children and adolescents as subjects of rights; and the third one - "Gender Experiences" - includes stories of teenagers and their reflections after the enactment of the law legalizing same-sex marriage. It seems opportune, in light of the regressive political context that Argentina is currently facing, to make a contribution constructed from educational research in the university arena.