Foundations of the educational privatization. State Terrorism, Corporate Social Responsibility and Education during the government of Mauricio Macri

Authors

  • Nuria Giniger Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina
  • Cinthia Wanschelbaum Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de Luján. Argentina

Keywords:

Commodification and privatization of education, Corporate Social Responsibility, Foundations, Public education

Abstract

In this article we propose to describe and analyze the relationship between State terrorism, particularly the role of companies in the development of policies aimed at the commodification and privatization of education through Corporate Social Responsibility and as one of the strategies of the right-wing offensive in education. The analysis of these relationships emerged from the empirical work we carried out in our research. There we warned that during the government of Mauricio Macri, the president of the Foundation Cimientos -one of the foundations with which the the National Ministry of Education signed an agreement- was Miguel Blaquier, lawyer and nephew of Carlos Blaquier, owner of Ingenio Ledesma, a company that has proven participation in the civil-military-ecclesiastical dictatorship. The orientations and actions of the educational policy of Macri´s government were organically linked to the needs that companies, directly or through their foundations and NGOs, demand from the public educational system, and the case of Cimientos reveals the historical plot of privatization of the public and the communication links of a government that inscribed its administration in continuity with the neoliberal policy established through State terrorism.

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Author Biographies

Nuria Giniger, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina

Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina

Cinthia Wanschelbaum, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de Luján. Argentina

Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de Luján. Argentina

Published

2022-10-05

How to Cite

Giniger, N. ., & Wanschelbaum, C. . (2022). Foundations of the educational privatization. State Terrorism, Corporate Social Responsibility and Education during the government of Mauricio Macri. Revista Pilquen. Sección Ciencias Sociales, 25(3), 47–73. Retrieved from https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/4328

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