Public Policies in Education in Chile (1985-2018). Participation of Juan Eduardo García-Huidobro

Abstract

During the period 1985-2018 there were a series of public policies in Chile in which Juan Eduardo García-Huidobro Saavedra participated directly, either promoting or directing them, either from the Center for Research and Development of Education (CIDE) -where he was in charge of the Research Area-, from the Ministry of Education -where he was Director General of Education- or from the Alberto Hurtado University in his capacity as Dean. Among them, the Program for the Improvement of the Quality and Equity of Education (MECE), the Program of the 900 Schools, the General Law of Education, the Montegrande Project and the Law of Inclusion, inspired by popular education in contact with Paulo Freire and Antonio Gramsci, stand out. His approach was that the educational system had to be discriminated against 'positively' to overcome the crisis in which it was left by the military dictatorship. Some biographical features and his philosophical training with two doctorates obtained at the University of Louvain, considering a significant number of publications, will be addressed in this qualitative paradigm study with phenomenological episteme and hermeneutics, it’s historical research in which primary and secondary sources are used, with interviews with the protagonist himself and those who worked directly with him.