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The demand for a public education, free and of quality, has been historically in the struggles of the people of Chile, taking more strength and popular adhesion since 2006. In spite of its important social support, this demand has faced the resistance of the economic interests of the current educational market. And this happens because achieving the social right to education is also a discussion about the development project of the country, since the neoliberal model includes education as a service that can be purchased and restricts state action to the delivery of subsidies (subsidies, scholarships, credits and many other contributions in money) aimed at the demand, treating citizens as consumers. Education was converted into a market of millionaire earnings for entrepreneurs and indebtedness for Chilean families. Because of the above, I am disturbed to hear again, arguments of the neoliberal logic, that is, to focus state resources on the most vulnerable, without disting...

In the present report, I will present my fieldwork experience (which consisted of an observation) in the kindergarten called "el pinar”   of the San Joaquín commune." This visit was made with the aim of achieving an approach to the educational reality; know the characteristics of the same, establishing contact with the school environment and the institutional life that participates in an important way in the development of children. This work is done by presenting ourselves at the institution, with prior permission from the director of the establishment, where we record this experience in a notebook, in which we write in a table following the format that established an observation schedule, the description of our subjectivity as observers, the description of the facts and the initial hypotheses, this is called Field Note. The good points of the observation were that we were able to enter the field of development of the children by being able to observe the activities t...