Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Everything is ok (I think so)


Well, I really don't know if it's everything ok, but it is a very nice way to start the second term.


The year started full of good news: I met a interesting girl (now she is my lovely girlfriend), went to Buenos Aires in my summer vacations and started to work in a real sociological organization as a assistant researcher. Nevertheless, our country was devastated by one of the most violent earthquakes in the world history, situation that plunge us into deep depression. Dispite the dark days of Febraury, my year is still shining.


I started my fourth year (the last with presencial courses) obtaining antecedents about the topic of my mayor: "new curricular strategies in elite schools". It's a research inspired in the high scores that those schools get in the PSU. I'm convinced, because I studied in such establishments, that there are more factors than just the possession of cultural capital (using a Bourdieu concept) or a socioeconomic variable. In the elite schools (with elite schools I'm trying to describe not only the best schools of the country in the standarized test, but also the establishment which recieves in their classrooms the highest percentage of revenue and the powerful groups of our society) there are special courses of PSU, even since 1st grade of highschool or pre-universitary courses that overlap the obligatory planning of the ministery. All this diagnosis is crossed by the neoliberal laws that the military gobernment, the "concertaciĆ³n", and now the "new way of governing" apply in Chile in the last 30 years.


Well, I exceed the word limit, therefore I say goodbye.


See ya.




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