“YOUR FREEDOM TO CHOOSE”: INFLUENCE ON THE EDUCATIONAL DECISIONS AND PROJECTIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDIENTS IN A POLYVALENT MUNICIPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN CHILE.
Authors
Alejandro Andrés Muñoz Escamilla
Universidad de Chile
This article analyzes the biographical interviews of a group of students in their third year of high school in Chile. This analysis was carried out around the axes of perceived gender inequality and inequality of opportunities, studying how these would affect them at the moment of making decisions and imagining post-secondary projections. Likewise, the supposed freedom with which students would always make these decisions is questioned. The methodology included in-depth interviews with students from a polyvalent municipal high school in the province of Santiago. In analyzing them, emphasis was placed on the institutional influences and those of the students' immediate environment at the moment of making decisions that mark their educational trajectory. The results show the visions that these young people construct regarding the (over)significance of decisions they make at a very early age but which, as social experiences, they read as decisive for their future, and in some cases, instead of opening their horizon of possibilities, they seem to limit it.
Keywords:
biographical interview, educational trajectory, decisions, gender inequality, inequality of opportunities
Muñoz Escamilla, A. A. (2021). “YOUR FREEDOM TO CHOOSE”: INFLUENCE ON THE EDUCATIONAL DECISIONS AND PROJECTIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDIENTS IN A POLYVALENT MUNICIPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN CHILE. Revista Enfoques Educacionales, 18(1), 86–103. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7279.2021.61503
