The Sense of the Common and the Democratic Experience in the Curriculum in Schools of Social Exclusion

• In Event: Civic Engagement and Equity: Dimensions of Exclusion, Identity, and Community

Abstract

This paper investigates the sense of belonging to the "common" among young people 12-16 years in the school of vulnerable sectorsin Chile. The data analysis shows a loss of the ordinary democratic constitution. The actors act in individualistic and passive way regulated by external regulations, regulations that do not make no sense to them. A neutral space the Government impose as valid and official knowledge based on an segregating and standardized measurement system, underlaying an technocratic epistemology and a neoliberal ideology. Popular culture are negated in the neoliberal Chilean eductional system, in which privatization and commodification, are added to break the common sense of the school and the democratic experience.

Authors

• Silvia Maria Redon, Universityersidad Catolica Valparafso

• Jose Felix Angulo, Universidad de Cadiz