¿Do we leave neoliberalism in education behind?

Abstract

What is the role assumed by the Argentine government regarding the implementation of the right to education during the period 2003-2009? Are we witnessing a transformation process of neoliberal education policies of the 90s? This article attempts to answer these questions by analyzing the educational policy in Argentina between 2003 and 2009 from the analysis of public speeches by ministers of education of those years: Daniel Filmus and Juan Carlos Tedesco. In this sense, this period is problematized as a time of reformulation or transformation of neoliberal education model in the 90s from a greater state intervention in the educational field. The paper presents an analysis of the ex – ministers’ discourse in the editorials of the magazine "Monitor" and interviews carried out during their office, taking as reference what role was assumed by the State for the concretion of the right to education . It tries to access to the structures of the meanings produced by Filmus and Tedesco’s public interventions, both to interpret and understand such meanings in the broader social and political context, as well as to analyze their instituting capacity, its power to construct senses and the importance of discouse to configure the objects of which they talk about (Foucault, 1974).