The Class and Culture-Based Exclusion of the Chilean Neoliberal Educational Reform

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8924525
AutoresEduardo Cavieres-Fernández (0000-0003-3199-5090, University of Wisconsin–Madison, autor correspondente), Eduardo A Cavieres
Ano2011
Volume47
Fascículo2
Páginas111-132
Data de publicação2011-03-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131946.2011.554588
OpenAlexW2040823913
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas15

In this article I analyze the class- and cultural-based exclusion produced by the Chilean neoliberal educational reform, carried out during the period from 1990 to 2010. This educational reform follows the same neoliberal model applied to the economy of the country. Although some indicators improved in relation to coverage and public spending in education, the performance gap among social groups increased. In addition, at a cultural level, the reform promoted the value of individual productivity negatively affecting some of the cultural behaviors developed by low-income groups as a consequence of and as reaction to the exclusion they suffer. Namely, by stressing the notions of human capital and quality education, the reform has tended to reinforce these students’ fatalism, and limit the scope of the organizations they form to improve their academic and social opportunities

Cultural capital · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Fatalism · Human capital · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Productivity · Social class · Social exclusion · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Education in Rural Contexts · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics