16 de agosto de 2013

What Chile Must Do to Improve Education by dianerav


Chilean researcher Alberto Gonzalez Torrez has read the
posts about Chile and thinks the solutions are too timid. Here are
his suggestions for what is needed to get free of free-market
ideology:
"I've been following the series of three blog posts about
Chile, being a Chilean ed researcher myself. I believe Waissbluth's
contribution to the blog opens a debate of international relevance
by showcasing the Chilean example in the context of a global
advance of neoliberal policies in education (what Pasi Sahlberg
calls 'GERM').
I agree with the (dreadful) diagnosis offered by
Mario Waissbluth in terms of the consequences of neoliberal and
market policies in school education: high social segregation and
low attainment in schools, plus a weakened public image of public
education and the teaching profession.
Sharing the diagnosis,
however, I do believe Waissbluth's (and Educación 2020's) proposals
to revert this situation would fall short to produce the necessary
changes. I don't think this is the place to get in a detailed
argument, but I would say that Chile's problems won't be solved by
employing 'market tools' and 'special funds' as change levers.
There's a need for more radical responses to address the radically
grim scenario of Chilean school education. The idea is to break
free from the neoliberal principles underpinning the Chilean school
system (market, choice, privatisation) that have turned education
into a commodity. To do so, it isn't enough to think that 'we can
play the game better' than the people that came before us, and use
neoliberal strategies to improve education quality (which is, in my
opinion, what people from the Concertación thought in the
90s)."

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