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FTAA.soc/w/133/Add.1
October 16, 2000

Original: Spanish
Translation: FTAA secretariat

FTAA - COMMITTEE OF GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ON THE PARTICIPATION OF
CIVIL SOCIETY

CONTRIBUTION IN RESPONSE TO THE OPEN INVITATION


Name: Dante Donoso
Organization: Alianza Chilena por un Comercio Justo y Responsable, Area Educación
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Executive Summary

The new worldwide globalization requires that countries like Chile possess absolute comparative advantages in the area of natural resources, as well as a highly skilled citizenry capable of competing with other “economies”, as countries are now called in the jargon of the negotiators.

Yet this is out of step with the educational reform carried out by the Military dictatorship and maintained by the democratic governments which have followed that regime, inasmuch as the performance indicators used to evaluate that reform -- such as the Sistema de Medición de la Calidad Educativa (SIMCE) and the well-known Prueba de Aptitud Académica (PAA) - have shown poor results. Hence, the reform has not helped to ensure social equity in our society.

A rereading of the objectives established in the plan of action adopted by the Minister of Education meeting in connection with the FTAA in 1995 shows, in the case of Chile, that the road to greater liberalization (read: greater privatization and abandonment by the State of its responsibility for education) leads inevitably to the creation of a society of ignorance and jettisoning of values.

 
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