Abstract
As with the period of the UNESCO-backed literacy campaign in Cuba before it, the period 1964-1970 in Chile is arguably one of the few great watersheds in 20th century history of education. Responding to popular education debates reaching back to the latter decades of the 19th century, the Frei Montalva administration sponsored a literacy program which was linked to its Chilenisation reform project, intended to incorporate the popular sectors in the Christian Democrat modernisation project without fundamentally altering Chilean society, whilst reinvigorating the dominant mode of production. The links between the shifting ideological subtexts of adult education and popular rejection of liberal capitalism in Chile were not insignificant. And there remain wide-ranging influences in global educational discourse today of the interplay between a Chilean pedagogy of the left and Freire’s development, however underacknowledged.
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