English 4: Blog session 6: Challenges in Education.

Blog session 6: Challenges in Education.

The student movements have received relevancy, especially in 2011, with the " Revolution Pinguina". Where the students they protested for the negligence’s of the public policies that they were to the base of the education of our country.

According to the expert in Public Policies of the University Diego Portales, Claudia Sanhueza, even before this century the student movement already had very much weight in Chile;

" The students were the first ones in protesting against the dictatorship of Pinochet in the 80s "

(Sanhueza,2015)

The revolution of 2011 is significant because not only pupils protested, but also university students, teachers and the families went out to the streets protesting the government for the education. The current student movement in Chile, regarding their demands in relation to the orientations and interests of the new middle class.

Actually the people claim for public education could be expressive of a legitimacy crisis corresponds to the expansion and differentiation of the new middle class (regarding the massification of students, professionals and intellectuals in general) in the context of the transformation of the social structure in Chile during the last thirty years. Also, the demand for public education is aligned with the exercise of reflexive control on the structural and symbolic basis of the reproduction of this group and. For last the critique of the institutionalization of distribution of power through education constitutes the platform to sustain, from part of this group, a potential alternative project of society.

I believe that even become a standard in education to country, be a process very lengthy, because the challenges in education need reform , but not to harm the middle class than the reform that propused for the goverment actually.

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