Alejandro Carrasco Rozas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6328337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Carrasco Rozas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro Carrasco |
| FAMILY NAME | Rozas |
| SIGNATURE | ROZAS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1504-5044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
When removing barriers for choice is not enough: Unpacking working-class children’s cartographies of school choice in Chile
New and old educational inequalities in socio-cultural minorities: Exploring the school choice experiences of families under the new school admission system in Chile
In 2016, the Chilean Ministry of Education implemented the new School Admission System (SAS) designed with the goal of equalizing access to schools for the most disadvantaged families and reduce educational segregation. Yet it is not clear if the SAS is sensitive to socio-cultural minorities and their particular conditions. Hence, in this article we explore the school choice experiences of parents from three socio-cultural minorities under the ne…
Re‐examining the functioning of educational markets: Does the private‐subsidised sector contribute to school diversification
This article offers new empirical evidence regarding the limits of the premises of educational privatisation policies. Educational markets rely on the assumption that private participation has the potential to boost school diversification and open new educational opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Using a fresh empirical approach, we draw on the Chilean case to investigate this rationale, which remains a controversial issu…
School admissions and educational justice: Parents' moral dilemmas facing the new Chilean school admission system
In the context of the increased interest in social justice within education policy debates, this article addresses the new justice-oriented school admission system implemented in Chile. Considering the critical role of parents in education policy, we explore families’ negotiations about the new school admission system, focusing on the moral dilemmas they experience when confronted with changes in the rules that organize the distribution of school…
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: The development and application of a public-private index
The process of privatising services historically provided by the state has blurred the boundaries between what is considered to be ‘private’ and ‘public’. However, few efforts have been made in the educational arena to develop tools to measure this process. Most of the previous research has relied on narrow definitions about what is private and what is public. This work proposes a tool to measure the degree of publicness-privateness of school sys…
Discriminación étnica y cultural en procesos de elección de escuela en minorías socioculturales en Chile
En esta investigación analizamos las experiencias de elección escolar de familias pertenecientes a minorías socioculturales en el mercado educativo chileno. El estudio se basa en una investigación cualitativa que incluye una muestra de 21 entrevistas con dos subgrupos: familias mapuche y apoderados/as inmigrantes latinoamericanos. Los resultados nos permiten identificar los principales antecedentes, criterios, preocupaciones y expectativas de las…
Self-segregation strategies through school choice in Chile: A middle-class domain
Sociological research has shown that marketized educational systems favour middle-class families' self-segregation strategies through school choice and, consequently, the reproduction of their social advantage over poorer families. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, habitus and strategy, we analyse quantitative and ethnographic data on parents' school choice from Chile to introduce nuances to this argument, evincing more extended …
School admission in Chile, new rules of the game, and the devaluation of Middle-class capitals
This paper illustrates the influence of a new national assignment system (NSAS) on Chilean middle-class advantage. This system was designed to increase educational equity by changing the previous school admission “rules” that were prejudicial against low-income students. We use Bourdieu’s conceptual tools, drawing on concepts of capitals and field, to analyse the influence of the new rules of the game on the value of middle-class capitals. To und…
Chile’s enduring educational segregation: A trend unchanged by different cycles of reform
Socioeconomic segregation continues to be a central issue for education systems in which market‐driven reforms have been implemented. This study analyses trends of socioeconomic segregation in Chile (1999–2018), considering a period with an absence of policies aimed at reducing segregation (1999–2007) and a later stage (2008–2015) when measures were implemented with the potential to affect the socioeconomic composition of schools. Results show th…
La instalación de la crisis ambiental global en el discurso de la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos. Desde la Guerra Fría hasta la segunda década del Siglo XXI
Este artículo es el resultado de una investigación sobre la presencia e instalación del tema de la crisis ambiental global en el discurso institucional relativo a la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos y demuestra cómo, desde muy temprano, se entendió el tema de la degradación ambiental como una amenaza a la seguridad de la superpotencia. El estudio abarcó un periodo que va desde la Guerra Fría hasta la segunda década del siglo XXI. Se basó en u…
Clases medias e inclusión escolar: Explorando la zona de mediación de la desegregación en las escuelas
Este artículo explora la implementación de la Ley de Inclusión Escolar (LIE) en las escuelas desde la perspectiva de las clases medias. El trabajo se enmarca en el enfoque de la zona de mediación de las políticas de desegregación y se basa en un estudio de caso de tres escuelas particulares-subvencionadas que educan a distintas fracciones de las clases medias de la región de Magallanes que han experimentado cambios en su composición social desde …
The transition from a deregulated market to a centralised school admission system in Chile: Mapping middle-class responses to new school choice rules
Despite increasing consensus around strengthening school choice regulations to reduce its segregating effects, policy changes and research in this direction are scarce. In that context, this article tackles the recent equity-oriented reform introduced in the highly marketised Chilean school system. Based on in-depth interviews, we explore the responses of middle-class parents to the implementation of a new centralised admission system that modifi…
Explicaciones causales en la investigación cualitativa: Elección escolar en Chile
Este artículo reflexiona sobre cómo las investigaciones cualitativas en educación pueden generar explicaciones causales. Para ello, se propone analizar el concepto de causalidad y su posicionamiento en los paradigmas positivista e interpretativo. Luego, se profundizará en las estrategias y los análisis que posibilitan la generación de mecanismos contextualizados y conceptualizados. Además, utilizando una investigación cualitativa sobre elección e…
Failed regulations and school composition: Selective admission practices in Chilean primary schools
This is an exploratory study about pupil selection. Admission regulations are central to understanding issues of school mix, segregation and educational justice. In Chile, student selection has been intensively discussed but scarcely studied. Using a questionnaire for headteachers (N = 581), we explore how school admission processes are organised and implemented within a market-based educational system with a high-stakes testing regime where scho…
Investigación en Efectividad y Mejora Escolar: Nueva Agenda
A partir de la reciente publicación del International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement (Townsend, 2007), este comentario discute tanto sobre la dirección que esta tomando la investigación en efectividad y mejora escolar (IEM) en el mundo anglófono como la potencial contribución de una nueva agenda de mejora escolar a las políticas educativas destinadas a los sectores menos privilegiados de la población. Se incorpora un breve comen…
Mejoramiento Escolar en Contextos de Pobreza: Problematizando Supuestos desde la Evidencia
Hace casi exactamente 20 años atrás, en Enero de 1988 en Londres, tuvo lugar el Primer Congreso Internacional de Escuelas Efectivas y Mejoramiento. Veinte años después, aquí en Santiago de Chile, Latinoamérica celebra su primera conferencia en la misma área. Esta presentación discutirá algunos de los problemas que enfrenta el campo de la efectividad después de casi tres décadas de desarrollo, especialmente, respecto a su contribución al Mejoramie…
How local market pressures shape leadership practices: Evidence from Chile
Chile is well known worldwide for its extensive use of market-driven mechanisms in education. Using a case study strategy in three schools, this paper shows that ‘universal’ voucher system and mixed provision (co-existence of subsidised private and state-funded schools) policies are reshaping school management practices. The paper draws evidence from ethnographic data in disadvantaged Chilean public schools and uses Bourdieu’s notion of field as …
Parental preferences in school choice: Comparing reputational hierarchies of schools in Chile and Finland
Parents evaluate the reputations of the schools when making judgements about their desirability. They try to approximate the quality of schools and the social environment and contrast those with their hopes and fears concerning their child’s education. We aim to clarify how the reputations of schools are constructed in Finland and Chile and what sorts of reputational categories, hierarchies and preferences of schools and classes families form whe…
Parental preferences in school choice: Comparing reputational hierarchies of schools in Chile and Finland
Parents evaluate the reputations of the schools when making judgements about their desirability. They try to approximate the quality of schools and the social environment and contrast those with their hopes and fears concerning their child’s education. We aim to clarify how the reputations of schools are constructed in Finland and Chile and what sorts of reputational categories, hierarchies and preferences of schools and classes families form whe…
School admission in Chile, new rules of the game, and the devaluation of Middle-class capitals
This paper illustrates the influence of a new national assignment system (NSAS) on Chilean middle-class advantage. This system was designed to increase educational equity by changing the previous school admission “rules” that were prejudicial against low-income students. We use Bourdieu’s conceptual tools, drawing on concepts of capitals and field, to analyse the influence of the new rules of the game on the value of middle-class capitals. To und…
Failed regulations and school composition: Selective admission practices in Chilean primary schools
This is an exploratory study about pupil selection. Admission regulations are central to understanding issues of school mix, segregation and educational justice. In Chile, student selection has been intensively discussed but scarcely studied. Using a questionnaire for headteachers (N = 581), we explore how school admission processes are organised and implemented within a market-based educational system with a high-stakes testing regime where scho…
Chile’s enduring educational segregation: A trend unchanged by different cycles of reform
Socioeconomic segregation continues to be a central issue for education systems in which market‐driven reforms have been implemented. This study analyses trends of socioeconomic segregation in Chile (1999–2018), considering a period with an absence of policies aimed at reducing segregation (1999–2007) and a later stage (2008–2015) when measures were implemented with the potential to affect the socioeconomic composition of schools. Results show th…
The transition from a deregulated market to a centralised school admission system in Chile: Mapping middle-class responses to new school choice rules
Despite increasing consensus around strengthening school choice regulations to reduce its segregating effects, policy changes and research in this direction are scarce. In that context, this article tackles the recent equity-oriented reform introduced in the highly marketised Chilean school system. Based on in-depth interviews, we explore the responses of middle-class parents to the implementation of a new centralised admission system that modifi…
Self-segregation strategies through school choice in Chile: A middle-class domain
Sociological research has shown that marketized educational systems favour middle-class families' self-segregation strategies through school choice and, consequently, the reproduction of their social advantage over poorer families. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, habitus and strategy, we analyse quantitative and ethnographic data on parents' school choice from Chile to introduce nuances to this argument, evincing more extended …
How local market pressures shape leadership practices: Evidence from Chile
Chile is well known worldwide for its extensive use of market-driven mechanisms in education. Using a case study strategy in three schools, this paper shows that ‘universal’ voucher system and mixed provision (co-existence of subsidised private and state-funded schools) policies are reshaping school management practices. The paper draws evidence from ethnographic data in disadvantaged Chilean public schools and uses Bourdieu’s notion of field as …
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: The development and application of a public-private index
The process of privatising services historically provided by the state has blurred the boundaries between what is considered to be ‘private’ and ‘public’. However, few efforts have been made in the educational arena to develop tools to measure this process. Most of the previous research has relied on narrow definitions about what is private and what is public. This work proposes a tool to measure the degree of publicness-privateness of school sys…
Parental preferences in school choice: Comparing reputational hierarchies of schools in Chile and Finland
Parents evaluate the reputations of the schools when making judgements about their desirability. They try to approximate the quality of schools and the social environment and contrast those with their hopes and fears concerning their child’s education. We aim to clarify how the reputations of schools are constructed in Finland and Chile and what sorts of reputational categories, hierarchies and preferences of schools and classes families form whe…
Investigación en Efectividad y Mejora Escolar: Nueva Agenda
A partir de la reciente publicación del International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement (Townsend, 2007), este comentario discute tanto sobre la dirección que esta tomando la investigación en efectividad y mejora escolar (IEM) en el mundo anglófono como la potencial contribución de una nueva agenda de mejora escolar a las políticas educativas destinadas a los sectores menos privilegiados de la población. Se incorpora un breve comen…
Mejoramiento Escolar en Contextos de Pobreza: Problematizando Supuestos desde la Evidencia
Hace casi exactamente 20 años atrás, en Enero de 1988 en Londres, tuvo lugar el Primer Congreso Internacional de Escuelas Efectivas y Mejoramiento. Veinte años después, aquí en Santiago de Chile, Latinoamérica celebra su primera conferencia en la misma área. Esta presentación discutirá algunos de los problemas que enfrenta el campo de la efectividad después de casi tres décadas de desarrollo, especialmente, respecto a su contribución al Mejoramie…
How local market pressures shape leadership practices: Evidence from Chile
Chile is well known worldwide for its extensive use of market-driven mechanisms in education. Using a case study strategy in three schools, this paper shows that ‘universal’ voucher system and mixed provision (co-existence of subsidised private and state-funded schools) policies are reshaping school management practices. The paper draws evidence from ethnographic data in disadvantaged Chilean public schools and uses Bourdieu’s notion of field as …
Failed regulations and school composition: Selective admission practices in Chilean primary schools
This is an exploratory study about pupil selection. Admission regulations are central to understanding issues of school mix, segregation and educational justice. In Chile, student selection has been intensively discussed but scarcely studied. Using a questionnaire for headteachers (N = 581), we explore how school admission processes are organised and implemented within a market-based educational system with a high-stakes testing regime where scho…
Explicaciones causales en la investigación cualitativa: Elección escolar en Chile
Este artículo reflexiona sobre cómo las investigaciones cualitativas en educación pueden generar explicaciones causales. Para ello, se propone analizar el concepto de causalidad y su posicionamiento en los paradigmas positivista e interpretativo. Luego, se profundizará en las estrategias y los análisis que posibilitan la generación de mecanismos contextualizados y conceptualizados. Además, utilizando una investigación cualitativa sobre elección e…
Clases medias e inclusión escolar: Explorando la zona de mediación de la desegregación en las escuelas
Este artículo explora la implementación de la Ley de Inclusión Escolar (LIE) en las escuelas desde la perspectiva de las clases medias. El trabajo se enmarca en el enfoque de la zona de mediación de las políticas de desegregación y se basa en un estudio de caso de tres escuelas particulares-subvencionadas que educan a distintas fracciones de las clases medias de la región de Magallanes que han experimentado cambios en su composición social desde …
The transition from a deregulated market to a centralised school admission system in Chile: Mapping middle-class responses to new school choice rules
Despite increasing consensus around strengthening school choice regulations to reduce its segregating effects, policy changes and research in this direction are scarce. In that context, this article tackles the recent equity-oriented reform introduced in the highly marketised Chilean school system. Based on in-depth interviews, we explore the responses of middle-class parents to the implementation of a new centralised admission system that modifi…
School admission in Chile, new rules of the game, and the devaluation of Middle-class capitals
This paper illustrates the influence of a new national assignment system (NSAS) on Chilean middle-class advantage. This system was designed to increase educational equity by changing the previous school admission “rules” that were prejudicial against low-income students. We use Bourdieu’s conceptual tools, drawing on concepts of capitals and field, to analyse the influence of the new rules of the game on the value of middle-class capitals. To und…
Chile’s enduring educational segregation: A trend unchanged by different cycles of reform
Socioeconomic segregation continues to be a central issue for education systems in which market‐driven reforms have been implemented. This study analyses trends of socioeconomic segregation in Chile (1999–2018), considering a period with an absence of policies aimed at reducing segregation (1999–2007) and a later stage (2008–2015) when measures were implemented with the potential to affect the socioeconomic composition of schools. Results show th…
La instalación de la crisis ambiental global en el discurso de la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos. Desde la Guerra Fría hasta la segunda década del Siglo XXI
Este artículo es el resultado de una investigación sobre la presencia e instalación del tema de la crisis ambiental global en el discurso institucional relativo a la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos y demuestra cómo, desde muy temprano, se entendió el tema de la degradación ambiental como una amenaza a la seguridad de la superpotencia. El estudio abarcó un periodo que va desde la Guerra Fría hasta la segunda década del siglo XXI. Se basó en u…
Discriminación étnica y cultural en procesos de elección de escuela en minorías socioculturales en Chile
En esta investigación analizamos las experiencias de elección escolar de familias pertenecientes a minorías socioculturales en el mercado educativo chileno. El estudio se basa en una investigación cualitativa que incluye una muestra de 21 entrevistas con dos subgrupos: familias mapuche y apoderados/as inmigrantes latinoamericanos. Los resultados nos permiten identificar los principales antecedentes, criterios, preocupaciones y expectativas de las…
Self-segregation strategies through school choice in Chile: A middle-class domain
Sociological research has shown that marketized educational systems favour middle-class families' self-segregation strategies through school choice and, consequently, the reproduction of their social advantage over poorer families. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, habitus and strategy, we analyse quantitative and ethnographic data on parents' school choice from Chile to introduce nuances to this argument, evincing more extended …
School admissions and educational justice: Parents' moral dilemmas facing the new Chilean school admission system
In the context of the increased interest in social justice within education policy debates, this article addresses the new justice-oriented school admission system implemented in Chile. Considering the critical role of parents in education policy, we explore families’ negotiations about the new school admission system, focusing on the moral dilemmas they experience when confronted with changes in the rules that organize the distribution of school…
Comparing degrees of ‘publicness’ and ‘privateness’ in school systems: The development and application of a public-private index
The process of privatising services historically provided by the state has blurred the boundaries between what is considered to be ‘private’ and ‘public’. However, few efforts have been made in the educational arena to develop tools to measure this process. Most of the previous research has relied on narrow definitions about what is private and what is public. This work proposes a tool to measure the degree of publicness-privateness of school sys…
New and old educational inequalities in socio-cultural minorities: Exploring the school choice experiences of families under the new school admission system in Chile
In 2016, the Chilean Ministry of Education implemented the new School Admission System (SAS) designed with the goal of equalizing access to schools for the most disadvantaged families and reduce educational segregation. Yet it is not clear if the SAS is sensitive to socio-cultural minorities and their particular conditions. Hence, in this article we explore the school choice experiences of parents from three socio-cultural minorities under the ne…
Re‐examining the functioning of educational markets: Does the private‐subsidised sector contribute to school diversification
This article offers new empirical evidence regarding the limits of the premises of educational privatisation policies. Educational markets rely on the assumption that private participation has the potential to boost school diversification and open new educational opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Using a fresh empirical approach, we draw on the Chilean case to investigate this rationale, which remains a controversial issu…
When removing barriers for choice is not enough: Unpacking working-class children’s cartographies of school choice in Chile
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · School Choice and Performance (11 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (8 works) · School choice (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Disadvantaged (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works)