The self-taught school: Inclusion of foreign students according to public action in Chile

Abstract

The consolidation of migratory flows to Chile and the concentration of foreign students in public schools have led the State and the Ministry of Education to implement regulatory bodies and design guides and guidelines to promote school inclusion processes. The objective of this study is to analyze publicly accessible documents addressing the inclusion of foreign students based on what schools are expected to do in managing cultural diversity. Eighteen official documents were analyzed using the discourse analysis technique. The results show that the texts configure a voluntaristic school, responsible for a large number of tasks without the delivery of necessary resources and without a specific diversity management model. However, in the context of the pandemic, a shift towards comprehensiveness is perceived: new challenges and dimensions appear to address the inclusion of migrant communities.