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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Neoliberal public policies and invisibilization of the quality of the curriculum in chilean higher education

Authors

Abstract

This article deals with public curricular policies in Chile over the last 50 years, for which it was investigated from a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive, critical and socio-historical perspective in the legal texts or reports on educational policies published during: the government of the Unidad Popular (1970-1973); the dictatorship (1973-1990); and the democratic period (1990-2020). This made it possible to identify and describe the neoliberal ideological elements that underpin current education policy, revealing both the transitions of power and the structures and modes of operation. It is concluded that the hegemonic mental models are entrenched in these policies, especially in the last two periods, with the current curriculum being a misaligned element of the relevant social problems and whose strategies and discursive structures have supranational hegemonic ideologies, therefore, their adherence or rejection does not slow down the advance of these macro-trends.

Keywords:

Curriculum, quality, educational public policy, neoliberalism

Author Biographies

Isabel Ximena González Ramírez , Universidad Central

Doctor of Law from the University of Buenos Aires and Lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is an academic at the Faculty of Law and Humanities of the Central University of Chile and director of the Master in Mediation: Collaborative Conflict Management. She teaches the chair in Criminal Law in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Central University of Chile and in the Doctorate of Law at the University of Buenos Aires. Email  igonzalezr@ucentral.cl.

Johanna Carla Vargas Ugalde, Universidad Central

PhD candidate in Education from the Universidad Tres de Febrero, Universidad de San Martín and Universidad de Lanús-Buenos Aires. Social psychologist, master's degree in Social Psychology from the University of Talca and journalist from the Uniacc University. Teacher and coordinator of the Master in Mediation: Collaborative Conflict Management of the Faculty of Law and Humanities of the Central University of Chile. Email is johannavargasug@gmail.com