Neoliberal policies and early childhood: A review from a rights-based approach and educational inclusion in chile

Abstract

The article presented below is an essay, product of a documentary review, which addresses from a critical-reflective perspective the installation of neoliberal and market policies in Chilean education, since its implementation with the military dictatorship, its consequences remain in force, affecting the system as a whole. Education is a permanent process that is always present in the lives of individuals, and influences their way of thinking, feeling, and acting, consequently, the society of the third millennium demands educational processes that tend to the consolidation of educational quality, with a strong emphasis on the principles of equity and diversity. In this sense, the early childhood classroom faces great social and cultural heterogeneity, which implies another conception of the organization in preschool that goes beyond the path of uniformity and that recognizes difference, thus considering diversity as an enriching aspect of the educational community itself. In this essay, the limits and challenges in early childhood are analyzed, taking as a background the rights approach and the enormous processes of educational inclusion, which seek to achieve a society that is not only more just and democratic, but also more respectful of all children inclusion, from the earliest educational levels.