Policy, Education and Territory in Chile (1950 - 2010). From Collective Action to Market Action

Abstract

he course of territorial policy on education in Chile is described in this article from a standpoint based on the State of Commitment –prior to the dictatorship– to a Subsidizing State, which remains unaltered to this day. The first part looks at the dynamics of national policy on education from the middle of the last century up to the time when the country’s democracy was interrupted in 1973. The second examines the introduction of new policies on education designed essentially on the basis of financing structures linked to the educational reforms adopted in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The education policies developed during those two periods are analyzed in both sections of the article, and their implementation is characterized in the sub-national context. The article ends with several observations on education policy and possibilities for its appropriation and evolution under local government administrations.