This article analyses critically, from perspectives linked to hegemony theory, some of the concepts and argumentation used by the journal El Mercurio in Santiago in order to influence directly or indirectly the educational debates in Chile between 2011 and 2014, having as background the struggles of the student movement. With this purpose the text studies editorial comments, columns and letters to Director centered on the reforms proposed by the students (and some university professors) and related to themes like greed, free tuition of studies, democratic governance of higher education, and
the relation between the public and the private in education. At the end, the research asks for
the echoes of these kind of journalistic message in the revival of fears and resistances to the
change of the neo-liberal educative model of the military dictatorship, which is still operative
during the democratic transition.
Keywords:
educación pública, El Mercurio, Hegemonía, Educación superior, movimiento estudiantil
Ruiz, C. (2018). The debate on education in the opinion section of El Mercurio (2011-2014). Comunicación Y Medios, (37), 36–47. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1529.2018.45180
