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

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Policy Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2016

Author dc:creator

• Pino Yancovic, Mauricio

Contributors dc:contributor

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

• 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

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2016 Mauricio Pino Yancovic

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/92996

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/92996