Penguin Revolution in Chile

context and repercussions of the 2006 secondary movement

Abstract

In 2006, Chilean high school students took part in organized actions and protests, demanding changes in the Chilean educational system. This student movement became known as the "Penguin Revolution." This article aims to analyze the student movement of 2006 and its political and social repercussions in the country. It presents a brief history of the context of Chilean neoliberalism, highlighting the main political and social ideas and practices in the country, with a focus on the educational system. It presents the "Penguin Revolution", analyzing its demands and propositions of the student movement. The research identifies its repercussions on the institutional transformations that occurred in the educational model, as well as its political influence on the popular culture of resistance to neoliberalism in Chile. The methodology proposes an interdisciplinary study in the field of human and social sciences, adopting a qualitative approach, carried out through procedures of bibliographic review and documentary research. The obtained results indicate that the Penguin Revolution is closely related to the mobilizations of Chilean university students in 2011 and to student protests carried out in other Latin American countries, such as Brazil. The mobilization of 2006 ultimately reveals popular discontent with the neoliberal values that have structured Chilean society since the Pinochet dictatorship.