SCHOOLS IN MAPUCHE TERRITORY: INEQUALITIES IN THE CHILEAN CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

The article presents an exploratory study on results in the evaluation tests of the Sistema de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación (Education Quality Measurement System), in reading comprehension, from 2011 to 2015, in La Araucanía, Chile. Methodologically, the results obtained by a sample of 22 schools located in Mapuche communities are described. The results show that rural municipal schools obtain better results compared to subsidized private schools with a difference of 8 to 10 points. This is relevant, because in Mapuche communities there is a supremacy of subsidized private schools, which systematically obtain low scores, which would continue perpetuating social and educational inequalities in the territory between Mapuche and non-Mapuche.

KEYWORDS:
Sistema de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación results; municipal and subsidized private schools; rural education