From the Poorly Made Head to the Misplaced Head: The Challenges of Chile's Education

Abstract

The kind of paradox or oxymoron that Edgar Morin exhibitsas an educational challenge on the threshold of the year 2000 with his text La cabeza bien puesta. To rethink the reform. Reforming the theorieshas adiluting effect for an educational system like the Chilean one, whichis structurally designed from aneoliberal paradigm. The pro-market financing formulas, the imposition of competition logics between public and private schools without positive impacts on the improvement of the education, the culture of school selection, the managementadministration that is promoted in leadership, the neoliberal style of school inclusion, or the deterioration of climates are all exemplary formulas in which privatizing neoliberalism shatters the idea of a cohesive community and socially competent, or collective and democratically deliberative public education. We are facing an anthropological revolution -and not simply a social or economic one-that places us at the center of a philosophical, anthropological and political debate, which drives us to question the impact of the logic of the neoliberal market and modernizing privatization that threatens the systems educational or that have shattered the public education system in Chile.