The new student and the meritocracy challenge: analyzing the cultural change in Chilean higher education.
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https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n33.148Keywords:
social mobility, meritocracy, higher educationAbstract
This article intends to reflect on the significant change experienced by the Chilean higher education system in recent decades. This discussion does not focus on reviewing the institutional changes and their effects but in relieving the subject that has emerged from this process. It is an individual belonging to this historical moment which assumes the challenge that society offers but also demands its reward, since the opportunities in Chile are not evident. It notes a tension - on one hand the individual who accepts the training supply in order to have a life project guaranteed and on the other hand an elite that has not "opened" the doors to these new actors to play the role they expect. Thus, meritocracy still lies as something unresolved.
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