Educational Policies and High Sports Performance

Abstract

With the aim of analyzing the perceptions of high-performance athletes in their educational trajectory, the study aims to investigate the ways in which pedagogical continuity is manifested in the Alfonsina Storni school in the city of Córdoba. Its headquarters, located in the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium, its main purpose is to implement the Inclusion and Termination Program of the Secondary School aimed at young people from 14 to 17 years old, with the purpose of high-performance athletes achieving integrality and educational completion, in accordance with their sports project. The qualitative study allowed us to explore in a detailed and comprehensive manner the operation of the program, as well as the experiences of the elite athletes involved. The data collected through observations and interviews provided a solid basis for the analysis and interpretation of the results, an issue that allowed us to visualize the relevance of the approach to the link between sports and educational trajectories. The research shows the importance of building educational spaces that guarantee the right to education while enabling and promoting sports practice at its different levels and modalities.