La empresa educativa Chilena

This paper describes and analyzes the features of the so called "Chilean Education Experiment". It tackles its structural aspects, its implementation and its main consequences. It finally describes the trends that emerged from the social movements that have led to resist to the neoliberal measures and an incipient capacity for alternative proposals. It thus reviews a set of primary and secondary research sources on the outreach of this model. The text shows that the systematic application of neoliberal education policies is something unheard of in Latin America that has produced very peculiar ...