Abstract

TORRES, María Paulina Castro. Games of truth in Chile´s university entrance exam involving the controversy around the occupation of the Palestine territory by Israel. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2019, vol.45, e190398.  Epub Jan 01, 2019. ISSN 1678-4634.  https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-4634201945190398.

Interested in acquiring an in-depth understanding of the standardized tests for higher-education admission and with the purpose of discussing the relations between the entrance exams and the Chilean curriculum, my intent in this article is to analyze the controversy arising from a question in the history, geography and social science test which went around throughout the country´s digital media in 2015. With such goal, based on Maingueneau, Grillo, and Possenti´s discursive analysis, I will sustain a theoretical dialogue among Bakhtin, Bourdieu, and Foucault. Thus, I will focus on the comments posted by internet users about the truthfulness or falsehood of a question in this entrance exam, which concerns Israel´s occupation of the Palestine´s territory. In addition, in order clarify my analytical perspective, I will take from the same subject matter in the 2012 exams, the comments by teachers about a question that mentioned the indigenous resistance of the Mapuche people to the Spanish colonization. Upon gathering this corpus, I will describe and compare the rule of discursive formation developed in what I will consider a field of strategical possibilities which allows for irreconcilable interests. After all, I will not only discuss the relations of pressure and legitimacy between the questions appearing in this entrance exam and the Chilean curriculum by competences, but I will also address the constitution of candidates as effects of power and knowledge, that is, the constitution of candidates seen then as fit or unfit to access the university.

Keywords : Chilean university entrance exam; Curriculum; Discourse.

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