TY - JOUR
T1 - TVET policy reforms in Chile 2006–2018
T2 - between human capital and the right to education
AU - Zancajo, Adrian
AU - Valiente, Oscar
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council?through the project Newton RCUK-CONICYT Governing the educational and labour market trajectories of secondary TVET graduates in Chile?(ES/N019229/1). We would like to thank our colleagues from the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Leandro Sep?lveda, Mar?a Jos? Valdebenito, Daniel Leyton and Carolina Gonz?lez) for their contributions in the preparation of this paper. We are also grateful to Jon Lauglo, Stephanie Matseleng, Simon McGrath and Michele Schweisfurth for their comments on an early version of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/10/2
Y1 - 2019/10/2
N2 - Human development and rights-based approaches to education have been gaining support among international organisations and development agencies as alternative frameworks to human capital orthodoxy. While these global trends have been well-documented in the international development literature, there is little empirical evidence into what extent, and through which mechanisms, alternative development paradigms in education are influencing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reforms. Chile provides an excellent opportunity for this kind of research given the long cycle of political contestation of neoliberal education policies in the country during the last decade. The article analyses TVET policy discourses for the last three government administrations (2006–2018) from a Cultural Political Economy perspective. The adoption of the rights-based approach in Chile shows its potential to mobilise greater involvement of the state in the funding and provision of TVET and in the support to secondary TVET students who want to continue their studies in tertiary education. However, the rights-based approach to education falls short when it comes to problematising political economy structures that shape TVET policymaking and the precarious labour market opportunities available to TVET graduates. These shortfalls show the need to incorporate more fundamental critiques of the neoliberal paradigm into the formulation of alternative policy agendas for TVET.
AB - Human development and rights-based approaches to education have been gaining support among international organisations and development agencies as alternative frameworks to human capital orthodoxy. While these global trends have been well-documented in the international development literature, there is little empirical evidence into what extent, and through which mechanisms, alternative development paradigms in education are influencing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reforms. Chile provides an excellent opportunity for this kind of research given the long cycle of political contestation of neoliberal education policies in the country during the last decade. The article analyses TVET policy discourses for the last three government administrations (2006–2018) from a Cultural Political Economy perspective. The adoption of the rights-based approach in Chile shows its potential to mobilise greater involvement of the state in the funding and provision of TVET and in the support to secondary TVET students who want to continue their studies in tertiary education. However, the rights-based approach to education falls short when it comes to problematising political economy structures that shape TVET policymaking and the precarious labour market opportunities available to TVET graduates. These shortfalls show the need to incorporate more fundamental critiques of the neoliberal paradigm into the formulation of alternative policy agendas for TVET.
KW - Education policy
KW - international development
KW - political economy
KW - right to education
KW - vocational education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057245157&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13636820.2018.1548500
DO - 10.1080/13636820.2018.1548500
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85057245157
SN - 1363-6820
VL - 71
SP - 579
EP - 599
JO - Journal of Vocational Education and Training
JF - Journal of Vocational Education and Training
IS - 4
ER -