Education for Citizenship: The Meanings Chilean Teachers Convey in the Neoliberal Context

Silvia Redon Pantoja, Natalia Vallejos Silva and José Félix Angulo Rasco
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Silvia Redon Pantoja: Lead Investigador Area Citizenship and Educaction, Centro de Investigación para la Educación Inclusiva SCIA ANID CIE160009, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2561427, Chile
Natalia Vallejos Silva: Centro de Investigación en Educación (CIE), Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile
José Félix Angulo Rasco: Lead Investigator Area Evaluation and Currículum for Inclusivity, Centro de Investigación para laEducación Inclusiva SCIA ANID CIE160009, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2561427, Chile

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-18

Abstract: This article presents the results from research into education for citizenship in which Chilean teachers participated. Ninety-nine interviews and two focal groups that included questions on knowledge, beliefs, values and practices related to education for citizenship were carried out. NVivo 12 software was used for the analysis of the discourses, following the direction similar to the grounded theory that considers elaborating free nodes, structuring categories and configuring categorical trees, according to the school’s administrative dependency. The results yield six macro-categories: School, Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, Curriculum, Teacher Role and Citizenship. The present article analyses the Neoliberalism macro-category formed, in turn, by the following subcategories: (1) subject and resistance, (2) competitiveness and individualism in a subject that is instrumental, consumer and reproducer of the establishment, (3) commodified schools, where the economic value regards students and families as clients, (4) a culture of bureaucratization and accountability, and (5) lack of a sense of communality as a collective, supportive body. In all of them, teachers show themselves eloquently critical of the neoliberal system and of the obstacles it poses to rights, justice and democracy in the current capitalist citizenship and school.

Keywords: education for citizenship; teaching staff; neoliberalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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