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In October 2011, I joined a student march called by the Confederation of Chilean Students (CONFECH), the Coordinating Assembly of Secondary Students (ACES) and the National Coordinating Committee of Secondary Students (CONES) in a street near the Alameda Avenue in the city of Santiago de Chile. While marching I encountered an old man holding a small banner with two little penguins drawn on it. I asked him why he held a banner with this drawing. He replied that what Chile witnessed in 2011 had been a process that secondary students, called the Penguins because of their school uniform, had begun in 2006 when they demanded education is a right and not a privilege.
Analysis and interpretation addressed in this chapter is based on emerging research findings from interviews conducted in Santiago de Chile in 2011 as part of field studies for a doctoral thesis on the Chilean student movement.
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Santibañez, I.H. (2013). Which Education for Which Democracy?: The Case of the Penguins’ Revolution in Chile. In: Motta, S.C., Cole, M. (eds) Education and Social Change in Latin America. Marxism and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137366634_12
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