The contribution of education and the ability to work in the industry of Antioquia-Colombia

Abstract

The Colombian industrial process, immersed in the import substitution industrialization model -ISI-, which occurred between 1945 and 1980, caused and encouraged socio-technical changes in the country, especially in highly industrialized areas such as the department of Antioquia and the surrounding area. of its capital -Medellín, Bello, Envigado, Itagüí-. These changes occurred at the educational, social, economic, urban, cultural and territorial levels, among others. This article aims to establish what was the contribution in the field of education to the industrial process, from training for work that stimulated socio-cultural changes with the opening of new educational centers that trained entrepreneurs, engineers, workers and