Transnationalization of chilean civic education. A critical study of the links between CIVED/ICCS and the local educational policies (1999-2016)

Abstract

The International Civic and Citizenship Education from IEA (CIVED/ICCS) is part of the regular list of international tests applied in Chile for the creation of education policies in the area. Nevertheless, the specific connections that this study has acquired in the education policy are essentially unknown, creating a pending intellectual debt in the local research field. The goal of this study is to specify and critically comprehend the link established by the local agents along with the citizenship agenda promoted by CIVED/ICCS in the policy for citizen education in Chile between the years 1999 and 2016. This proposal assumed an interpretive paradigm and a documentary-type research design, in which critical discourse analysis tools were applied. It was concluded that the uses and references of CIVEN/ICCS text follow a relevant thematic selection and political legitimation framed by the context of educational and social change.