"Reframing the right to education in the ""Chilean neoliberal experiment"": a multi-sited case study of community resistance to public school closings"

Pino Yancovic, Mauricio

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Title

"Reframing the right to education in the ""Chilean neoliberal experiment"": a multi-sited case study of community resistance to public school closings"

Author(s)

Pino Yancovic, Mauricio

Issue Date

2016-06-21

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

McCarthy, Cameron

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

• McCarthy, Cameron
• Lubienski, Christopher
• Dhillon, Pradeep
• Greene, Jennifer

Department of Study

Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp

Discipline

Educational Policy Studies

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Case Study
• Chile
• Community Resistance
• Fairclough
• Greene
• Mixed-method
• Mothers
• Municipalization
• Neoliberalism
• Neoliberal Imaginary
• Parents
• Public Education
• Right to Education
• Resistance
• Stake
• SIMCE
• Standarization
• Standarized Testing
• School Closing
• School Networks
• Tomasevski

Abstract

My dissertation research examines how the right to education, stated explicitly in the Chilean constitution, has been interpreted as educational policies are being enacted. I contrast this analysis with the use of the right to education by a group of poor Chilean parents, who in 2014, successfully resisted school closings in their community. I address these issues by conducting a mixed-methods study based on two methodological approaches: A critical discourse analysis of the right to education as it is elaborated in the Chilean constitution and a multi-sited case study in three schools of parent and community resistance to school closings. There are two main findings that can be summarized based on my research: 1) The commission in charge of developing the constitutional right to education did so with the goal of developing an educational market to promote a school choice policy in Chile, shielding it in a neoliberal imaginary of society; and 2) Parents and guardians of my multi-sited case study have an active role to play in the policy-making process, they cannot be reduced to educational consumers but must be understood as politically engaged persons that can articulate a resistance process by networking with other political agents. A general conclusion of my dissertation is that the right to education should be reframed considering Tomasevski 4 A's scheme, and be reviewed based on how inclusive an educational system is, how diverse and non-standardized the provision of this education is, and if the relationship of meso-level institutions with schools is actually supporting the realization of this fundamental human right.

Graduation Semester

2016-08

Type of Resource

text

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