Session Information
23 SES 09 B, The National Faces of Neoliberalism in Education in Rich and Developing Countries
Symposium
Time:
2009-09-30
10:30-12:00
Room:
HG, HS 7
Chair:
Dave Hill
Discussant:
Jill Pinkney Pastrana
Contribution
Chile is a country that can claim as its legacy an extremely well organized, relatively egalitarian, and effective public education system. It is also the first country to have systematically enacted and re-structured its entire education system along neo-liberal lines. In 1973, the political and economic changes that occurred following the military coup created a number of interesting challenges concerning the organization and purpose of education in Chile. During the 1980s the ruling military junta directed the country and all of its institutions firmly toward the global marketplace. Neo-liberal education reform and the ‘market-logic’ that ideologically grounds such reform, was imposed onto the educational system of Chile. These reforms created a new vision and organization for education in Chile. An educational system whose mandate had previously been firmly rooted in ideas of equity and opportunity was quickly shifted to one focused on efficiency and competition. These changes radically re-formed the education system in Chile, both structurally and ideologically, and despite an ongoing series of reforms following re-democratization in 1989, neo-liberal policies and their accompanying ideologies create numerous challenges for education in terms of quality, equity and democratic participation.
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