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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

The Chilean student movement

Authors

  • Óscar Espinoza Díaz Universidad de Pittsburgh
  • Luis E. González Fiegehen Universidad de Harvard

Abstract

A massive student movement begun in 2011. Students paralyzed academic activities in order to request solutions for some outstanding issues related to the Chilean educational system, namely: financing, profit, quality of offer, equity in access and the role of the state. The paper describes these five issues raised by postsecondary students and their proposals. Additionally, it analyses the Chilean university situation after 2011. The analysis is supported by data, displaying the urgent requirement to improve the university system administration.

Keywords:

Chilean student movement, education quality, equity of educational system