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Equity & Quality in Chilean Education: Pending Debt with
Under Priviliged. Some Contributions & Experiences
with Finnish Students
Lillian González, lilliang@ufro.cl, University of La Frontera, Chile
Brief History of Education in Chile
• Between 1500s & 1800s, education responsibility of Catholic institutions
• Better educational opportunities scarce, highly stratified, aimed at male members of aristocratic elite
• Become national political leaders
Early 20th Century
• An educational reform solidifies public education
• Ministry of Education born
• Centralized educational policies applied
• Free text books, basic school supplies support elementary education
• Promising educational development ends
• Effects of world financial crack destabilizes Chile’s income
• Emergence of ideological movements in Universities and schools of education
• Teachers declared revolutionaries
• Social and geographical inequalities
• Illiteracy a major problem
• Drop outs: disadvantaged children, from rural origin, poor ones
1950s, Motivation to remain in school
• Social strategies implemented
• Illiteracy attacked
• Free meals offered at school
• Access to health and dental care treatments
1960s, Economical Stability
• Expanssion of education
• New facilities built
• Funds allocated for the economically disadvantaged, agrarian workers and rural students
1965 /1973
• Contemporary methodologies used
• More equity and quality in education
• Some scholarships for low income students to enhance high school and University education
1975 /1990
• Chile’s education suffers abrupt changes
• Educational budget reduced• New conception of schooling • Education managed by local
governements • Teacher salaries reduced• Several teacher training institutions
closed
• Equity and quality far from hope of the average citizen
• Good education is private and expensive
1990
• Chile recovers its democracy
• Many nations of the world willing to support it
• Finland among supporting countries
• Chile is a destination for Finnish University graduates
• Scholarships
• Work for the enhancement of education initially
• Finland, multilingual country
• World’s best educational system
• Globally aware population
• Sends CIMO scholars to Chile
• Chile, monolingual country
• Consumed education
• 500 years isolation• Struggles for its
democracy & development
• Receives Finnish cooperants
Cooperation Starts
• Seminar in Santiago 10 years ago
• Chilean educational institutions invited
• Finnish institutions look for contacts to cooperate
• Faculty and Rectors present Finnish Universities
• Finnish culture shown
• Tango Festival
First CIMO Scholars
• Surprise Chilean employers positively
• Professional quality
• Independence
• Multilingual language skills
• Spanish with almost no accent
• Impeccable professional performance
Student Challenges
• Life at work not easy
• Work in deprived environments
• Work culture difficult to understand
• Jobs often characterized by underdevelopment, necessity and need
Student Challenges
• Students work to contribute to the overcoming of poverty
• Contribute to the raising educational standards
• Often in rural environments, where life, climate and work may be hard
• Have been critical
• Have asked intelligent questions
• Have helped Chilean peers to re evaluate jobs with their external vision
• Have become ambassadors to Finland
Learning Opportunities
• Learned about Chilean culture
• Learned to addapt to new situations
• Learned to make do with what they have
• Learned to overcome difficulties
• Learned to develop strategies many times alone to succeed
Young Ambassadors
• Memories and Friends
• Important professional contributions for the community
• Open doors for more Finnish students to come
CIMO: Cooperation with Chile
• Chile, stable democracy
• Globalized economy
• Continues upgrading education
• Equal opportunities for everybody
• Something experienced at home and shared with us by Finnish students worked in Chile
Experience Benefits
• Flexibility, generosity, understanding
• Number of Finnish students increased
• Work areas diversified
Experience Benefits
• Finnish students will continue to brig youth, professional profficiency, their culture and a way of doing things, that
will keep on benefitting those still in need.
Thank you Students, Thank you CIMO
Thank you Finland
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