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Polarización y Cohesión Social del Sistema Escolar Chileno

Economic Analysis Review

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Title Polarización y Cohesión Social del Sistema Escolar Chileno
 
Creator Villalobos, Cristobal
Valenzuela, Juan Pablo
 
Subject Polarization, social cohesion, system school
 
Description This research gives the magnitude, evolution and characteristics of academic and socioeconomic polarization in the Chilean school system. After examining the importance of the education system as a means of social cohesion, we analyze the implications of distribution processes of students in their education and the main background on the Chilean education system. Furthermore, the paper conceptualizes the notion of polarization, which is related to two aspects: the alienation or distance that students have with students different from them, and the identification or identity that individuals develop with others of similar characteristics. Using SIMCE databases from the last decade, we create and formalized three different indicators of polarization to assess the school system. The results show that the degree of academic and socio-economic polarization of the Chilean school system over the last decade has been constant, and in some cases increasing. Additionally, the measurement that determines the degree of polarization shows high levels socioeconomic and academic polarization, which is related to processes of fragmentation and clustering. These results show the necessity of analyzing the impact of educational policies on the processes of social cohesion and integration in the school system. This has to consider the importance of the school as a privileged place for these goals, as well as on the development of skills, values and cognitive thinking and noncognitive skills for all children. These results have been questioned from recent conflicts that have occurred in the education sector.
 
Publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado - Facultad de Economía y Negocios
 
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Date 2012-11-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/366
 
Source Revista de Análisis Económico - Economic Analysis Review; Vol 27, No 2 (2012); 145-172
Revista de Análisis Económico – Economic Analysis Review; Vol 27, No 2 (2012); 145-172
0718-8870
0716-5927
 
Language spa
 
Relation http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/366/529