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\nUniversity of Chile  \nCristian Cabalin  \nUniversity of Chile  \nDuring the last decade, Chilean society was shaken by sharply critical and powerful student movements: secondary students led the 2006 “Penguin Revolution” and university students led the 2011 “Chilean Winter.” This article describes and analyzes these student movements to illustrate how students can be highly relevant political actors in the educational debate. First, we explain the main features of the Chilean educational system, including its extreme degree of marketization, which provided the institutional context of the movements. Next, we analyze the key components and characteristics of the 2006 and 2011 student movements to describe basic features of the two movements and identify common elements of these movements, especially from an education policy perspective. We mainly focus on the link between students’ demands and discourses and the market-oriented institutions that prevail in Chilean education. Finally, we identify students’ impact on educational debates in Chile and examine general implications for policy-making processes in the educational arena.  \nIntroduction: Youth Apathy to Activism  \nOne of the most important changes in the Chilean political system in recent decades was the establishment of automatic registration and voluntary voting in 2012. A political objective of this project was to increase youth participation in elections, which has been low since democracy was restored in 1990. Indeed, the lack of political participation in elections among youth was explained during the 1990s as an expression of general apathetic behavior. These young people were considered “the ‘whatever’ generation”(La generación “No estoy ni ahí”) due to their supposed apolitical attitudes and limited motivation to be involved in public affairs (Muñoz Tamayo, 2011; Moulián, 2002). Despite this distance from electoral and partisan politics, there is evidence that Chilean youth have profound criticisms of society (Duarte Quapper, 2000) and a high level of interest in public and social problems, especially those related to inequity and arbitrary discrimination issues (Schulz et al., 2010) .  \nThis characterization of apathy among youth may have contributed to the deliberate process of de-politicization and demobilization that started during the first democratic administration after Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (De la Maza, 2010) . In fact, since 1990, citizen mobilizations had scarcely accompanied the democratization process in Chile. This situation began changing in 2006, with youth, specifically students, playing a crucial role as protagonists of massive demonstrations. Although students represent only a part of youth movements, social movements related to education have historically had a powerful impact on political and socio-cultural structures (Gill & DeFronzo, 2009) .  \nEducation has been the major field where Chilean youth expressed their malaise. During the last decade and especially over the past seven years, Chilean society has been shaken by two sharply critical and powerful student movements. Students’ demands, which have been echoed in civil society and the political field, have questioned some of the Chilean educational system’s structural elements. Since Chilean education improved some basic indicators of coverage and outcomes during the last decade, one might wonder why student protests have been so intensive and sustained during the same period. We analyze this issue, linking students’ demands with the institutional features of the educational system, which was restructured by a comprehensive neoliberal reform in 1980.  \nIn the first of the students’ movements, in 2006, secondary students were in the streets for more than two months with massive marches and protests (Domedel & Peña y Lillo, 2008) . This was called the “Penguin Revol","cbCairG8syozwHLK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairG8syozwHLK","pdf",386448,16,"English","# Introduction: Youth Apathy to Activism\n## Youth political participation and the “whatever” generation\n## De-politicization, demobilization, and emergence of activism\n# Education as a central arena for youth activism\n## 2006 and 2011 movements: intensity and context\n# The Context: Chile’s Market-oriented Educational System\n## Institutional background for student demands","[{\"question\":\"What were the key Chilean student movements discussed, and when did they occur?\",\"answer\":\"The article focuses on the 2006 “Penguin Revolution,” led by secondary students, and the 2011 “Chilean Winter,” led by university students.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article connect student activism to Chile’s educational system?\",\"answer\":\"It links students’ demands and discourses to the market-oriented institutional features of Chilean education shaped by a neoliberal reform in 1980.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article treat student influence on educational debate as policy-relevant?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how the movements affected educational debates and considers general implications for policymaking processes, noting the section’s provisional nature because the process was ongoing.\"}]","Chilean Student Movements: Sustained Struggle to Transform a Market-oriented Educational System | PDF",1792089111]