Sense of Future in High School Students: Paradoxes of Quality and Equity from the School Experience

Abstract

This article discusses the sense of future in high school students attending municipal schools in Chile. Around these expectations of future emerge some paradoxes of quality and equity which are manifested in their speeches on municipal education. Therefore, studying these paradoxes allows an understanding of the subjective dimension in secondary schooling processes and their possibilities of improvement. From this perspective, we are interested in integrating to the analysis both, the structural and subjective, dimensions of the processes of secondary schooling in Chile. In this regard, Corica (2012) argues that not only the changes in the labor market and in the educational system operate in the vision of future of young people, but there are also other social and representational factors that strongly influence the configuration of such expectations.