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Download or read book The Social Organization of ‘intercultural Education’ in Chile written by Fernanda Soler Urzúa and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing upon theoretical propositions of decolonial thought and using an adapted institutional ethnographic approach as a method of inquiry, this dissertation investigates the social organization of intercultural education in the Chilean context. By exploring everyday life accounts of Mapuche educators who work in the primary school system teaching the Mapudungun language subject, this study set out to unveil the institutional relations mediating their lived experience in the context of their jobs. By extensively and critically analyzing institutional policies and practices that organize Mapuche educators’ work, and by considering the historical and socio-political circumstances in which these have been produced, this study revealed the institutional relations and ideological discourses that (a) position the Mapuche language subject as marginal in the Chilean school curriculum in comparison to the rest of school subjects, (b) sustain the continuity of particular imaginaries around Mapuche work, and (c) enable the production of precarious material conditions that put Mapuche educators at a disadvantage compared to other educators of the Chilean school system. The current work reveals that the current institutional order that socially organizes intercultural education sustains—and is sustained by—modern/colonial structures stemming from Spanish colonization that have been reinforced throughout a history of over five centuries. By filling a gap in the scholarly work on intercultural education in the Chilean context, the study presented here contributes to expand our understanding of the ways in which intercultural education is socially organized. As such, this doctoral dissertation makes valuable information available that could potentially be used to put pressure on Chilean authorities to change the current institutional policies and practices that enable the subalternization of Mapuche knowledge, subjectivities and material conditions"--