The individualization theory emerges in the context of reflexive modernity to elucidate the transformations in the advanced industrial society. In Chile, it has constituted one of the main analytical frames for social scientists in the last decades to account on…

The objective of present study was to determine the capacity of Social Identity Model and Psychosocial Motives Model to explain the participation in regionalist social protest actions in Chile. We applied a survey in a representative sample of 1200 subjects…

Since 2001 a series of political manifestations have been taking place in Chile and the world that can be characterized as taking over the public space. In this article we review some of the features of this urban appropriation and…

This article presents an analysis about the place of the teacher as a subject in the Chilean social movement for education. That analysis was constructed based on the findings of a recent research conducted on Santiago’s secondary education teachers. Its…

The task of intellectuals and their relationship with the demands and social conflicts has taken the shape of three models, influential both within and outside academic life. The critical model separated positions by identifying which is the position based on…

The article drills down into the processes of inclusion of indigenous in tertiary education, problematizing the need to move toward an intercultural paradigm questioning current conditions of higher education. The goal was to understand and describe the inclusion and intercultural…

El presente trabajo busca contribuir a la reflexión y el análisis crítico sobre la política educativa actual. El objetivo del artículo es analizar la traducción de los discursos de la política educativa neoliberal chilena en las comunidades educativas. Se trabajó…

One of the assumptions on which our system of subsidy per student is based is that families choose school according to their quality. To study how this assumption works in poor neighborhoods, we conducted twenty-six group interviews with mothers that…