Mena, Paula;
(2018)
Re-reading the struggles over education policies in Chile: 1964-1973.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis looks at the struggles over education policies in Chile between 1964 and 1973; that is, the period immediately before the authoritarian regime of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). Contrary to common assumptions that the dictatorship completely redefined the symbolic and practical dimensions of education policies, I offer a re-reading of policy developments as discursive struggles that exhibit both continuities and discontinuities. I do so by looking at records of and accounts about education policies during a decade that was particularly rich in the production of new vocabularies, rhetorical devices, forms of protest, utopias and technologies. I adopt a broadly Foucauldian perspective so that historical changes in policies are not understood as a mere chronology of crucial events that trigger spectacular transformations. Rather, I research a period that was full of episodes of open unrest without however overlooking those trivial routines that persisted in the background. This thesis delivers three empirical products: Firstly, it produces a historical background of education developments in Chile. This is a synthesis of the aspects that are problematized in the secondary literature and by policy experts that I interviewed in 2010 and 2011. Secondly, I offer a reinterpretation of a specific education policy controversy at the time as an instance of discursive struggle. In order to do so, I carried out a documentary analysis of the transcripts of the sessions of the National Council of Education that was issued by President Salvador Allende’s Government in 1973. Thirdly, I provide an interpretation of the narratives of nine teachers about the decade 1964-1973 in terms of the biographical struggles they configure. These data come from individual interviews with retired teachers that I carried out in 2012 and 2013. Each part of the thesis conveys distinctive ways of historicizing the struggles over education policies.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Re-reading the struggles over education policies in Chile: 1964-1973 |
| Event: | UCL (University College London) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046810 |
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