Análisis de la Ley de Subvención Escolar Preferencial a escuelas vulnerables chilenas: una aproximación desde la teoría de la reproducción de Bourdieu

Abstract

Intended as a theoretical and practical contribution this work arises, reviewing the Preferential School Subsidy for Priority Schools Law (Law 20.248 or “SEP” Law), which grants preferential subsidy to the so-called Chilean priority schools and with attending students in a situation of social vulnerability. From the methodological point of view, the core concepts from Bourdieu's reproduction theory (1995) are being used as an analytical support in order to reveal the substrate of said legal text emanated from the Chilean Government. Certainly, through thoughtful development it is established, among other facts, that exercised by the State through Law 20.248 there is symbolic violence in order to strengthen the legitimate social world representation, as it acts as a compensatory public policy, which perpetuates school as a ghetto where social structure is maintained and as a censorius mechanism for language diversities by imposing official language valued by the dominant group as a cultural judgement, in this case, Spanish language given the need to improve scores on standardized tests of the subject of Language and Communication.