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Discursos de inclusión universitaria en Chile: meritocracia e integración educacional.
(Editorial Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, 2024-06-01) Miranda Molina, Rafael
This paper derives from a doctoral research on affirmative action policies in Chilean higher education and their dominant dis-courses. In this context, three discourses are analyzed that allow the construction of a selective, yet inclusive, University. Drawing from an extensive documentary archive and interviews with university and governmental professionals connected to the Higher Education Access Program (pace), which is the main affirmative action policy, the study examines how equity quotas and leveling measures are linked as pathways to achieving equal opportunities. This interpretation, which positions the underprivileged/meritorious individual as the subject of intervention, is disseminated within the university through training processes aimed at potential professional subjects. It is a pedagogy of meritocratic inclusion that invites professionals and students to become proud agents of social justice. These results reveal how the dominant rationality of the selective university subverts criticisms about the reproduction of inequality by holding the working-class accountable for their own inclusion/exclusion, while also managing to position itself in university markets as an agent of social inclusion.