CHILE: FREE SCHOOLS. THREE CASES
CHILE: FREE SCHOOLS. THREE CASES
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5584142416046
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Palavras-chave: educación alternativa; escuelas libres; Método Lefebre Lever; Waldorf; Montessori; Mapuche.
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Keywords: alternative education; free schools; Lefebre Method Lever; Waldorf; Montessori; Mapuche.
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Abstract:
In Chile, in recent years there has been a progressive increase in criticism of the formal educational system, which has generated a diversity of school alternatives, in addition to the already well-known Montessori and Waldorf methodologies, long established in the country.
Within the framework of a larger investigation about the educational alternatives that are currently being developed in Chile, two aspects of the alternative called Free Schools are presented here. One, of a popular nature, which is generally carried out on Saturdays as support for children who regularly attend schools subsidized by the State in the sector in which they live. The other, outside the formal school system, which operates from Monday to Friday, without subsidy, although following the national curriculum, in which the studies achieved by the students are validated through free exams from the Ministry of Education and with interesting methodological proposals that attract the attention of many Chilean families.
- Lester Igor Aliaga Castillo