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Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana
Print version ISSN 0122-7238
Abstract
SILVA-PENA, Ilich and PENA-SANDOVAL, César. Deregulation of initial teacher education. A neoliberal experience. Rev.hist.educ.latinoam. [online]. 2019, vol.21, n.32, pp.137-154. ISSN 0122-7238. https://doi.org/10.19053/01227238.8724.
This paper addresses the problem of deregulation of initial teacher education under a neoliberal system. Chile was used as a social laboratory of political and economic transformation by a group of Chilean economists trained in the United States (Chicago Boys). The text provides historical background of the process carried out by the civil-military dictatorship in Chile, continued by the following governments. This political and historical framework makes it possible to visualize the Chilean university system, in which state institutions are affected by a self-financing model.
We emphasize the analysis around the regulation/deregulation dichotomy as a public/private distinction. An example is the expansion of a private and deregulated offer of teacher education by regional state universities with low basal state contribution. Through these cases it is possible to observe that a model based on supply and demand advances in the destruction of the frontiers between public and private sectors. As a good laboratory, the example of Chile can be used to observe the effects of a neoliberal public policy.
Keywords : Education policy; education expenditures; education subsidy; Chile; privatization..