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School choice is analyzed as a policy-relevant issue linked to marketization, privatization, and social segregation dynamics in a context of highly segregated, expensive private schooling. Using a qualitative design with semi-structured interviews and focus groups in Santiago, the study highlights the centrality of communitarian, social, and cultural concerns, including identification between family and school community through shared worldviews and relationships.","| education policy analysis archives\u003Cbr>A peer-reviewed, independent, open access, multilingual journal.\u003Cbr>Universidad de San Andrés & Arizona State University\u003Cbr>|  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Volume 27 Number 5 | January 16, 2020 | ISSN 1068-2341 |\n\nSchool Choice in the Chilean Upper Class: Community, Identity and Social Closure  \nCristián Bellei  \nVíctor Orellana  \n&  \nManuel Canales  \nUniversidad de Chile  \nChile  \nCitation: Bellei, C., Orellana, V., & Canales, M. (2020) . School choice in the Chilean upper class: Community, identity and social closure. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28(5) .  \n[https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.3884](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.3884)  \nAbstract: This article presents the results of a study about the reasons, motives and meanings associated with school choice among Chilean upper-class families. School choice has become a relevant issue in educational policy debates about marketization and privatization because it is linked to social segregation dynamics. The Chilean upper social class is an appropriate social space to study these issues since this group educates their children in a hyper-segregated set of very expensive private schools. The study followed a qualitative approach, conducting semi-structured interviewsand focus groups in a prototypical zone of the upper social class in Santiago, Chile. Our main findings show the enormous relevance of communitarian, social and cultural concerns when choosing schools, seeking an identification between family and school community based on shared worldviews and social relationships. If we consider this social space as an educational market with prices, competition and school choice, this would be a market heavily embedded in a dense social world that supports it and ultimately subordinates it. We also found some diversity within the upper social class, which is currently stressed by some processes of socio-cultural diversification.  \nKey words: school choice; privatization in education; qualitative research; school segregation; meaning of social action; high social class  \nElección de escuela en la clase alta chilena: Comunidad, identidad y cierre social Resumen: Este artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio cuyo objetivo fue comprender las razones, motivos y significados asociados a la elección de escuela por parte de las familias de clasealta chilena. La elección de escuela ha pasado a ser un tema relevante del debate de política educacional sobre mercado y privatización, al estar asociado a dinámicas de segregación social. Laclase alta chilena ofrece un espacio social privilegiado para estudiar estos asuntos, toda vez que seeduca hiper-segregadamente en escuelas privadas de alto costo. Los hallazgos –basados en una investigación cualitativa en la cual se realizaron entrevistas y grupos de discusión en la zona prototípica de la clase alta de Santiago-muestran la enorme relevancia de consideraciones comunitarias, sociales y culturales al momento de elegir escuela, buscando una identificación de la familia con la comunidad escolar a partir de visiones de mundo y relaciones sociales compartidas. Si consideramos este espacio social como un mercado escolar, puesto que hay libre elección, precios y competencia, se trata de un mercado incrustado en una densa sociabilidad que lo soporta y en últimotérmino subordina. También encontramos cierta diversidad al interior de la clase alta, tensionada por procesos internos de heterogeneización socio-cultural.  \nPalabras clave: elección de escuela; privatización educacional; estudios cualitativos; segregacióneducacional; sentido de la acción social; clase alta  \nEscolha da escola na classe alta chilena: Comunidade, identidade e encerramento social Resumo: Este artigo apresenta os resultados de um estudo cujo objetivo foi compreender osmotivos, motivos e significados associados à escolha da escola pelas famílias de classe alta chilenas. 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