Browsing by Author "Matus, Claudia"

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    Autonomy and the ambiguity of biological rationalities: systems theory, ADHD and Kant
    (2018) Haye M., Andrés; Matus, Claudia; Cottet, Pablo; Nino, Sebastian
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    Interrupting narratives of displacement: 44 international students in the United States
    (2006) Matus, Claudia
    When policies are interpreted as discourses, issues of identity become significant in policy making. In this article I want to problematise the authoritative regulatory discourse of policies on international students in the United States (US) particularly after 9/11/2001 and how they maintain an essentialising notion of identity. Starting from this analysis I want to argue for the reframing of international students as co-producers of knowledge by questioning the more pragmatic sense of what internationalising higher education means. In the process I raise a range of relevant questions such as the ways policies are forms of cultural production condition experience, interpretation and reality (Campbell, 2000, 34). This has emerged from my doctoral dissertation in which I was located as an international student. This experience made me question how the subjectivity of international students is posited in policy documents and research in the United States.
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    Narrating school vulnerability: Performativity, space, and territory
    (Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, 2013) Infante Jaras, Marta Del Rosario; Matus, Claudia; Paulsen, Abraham; Salazar, Alejandro; Vizcarra, Ruby
    In this article we explore the production, reproduction, and circulation of discourses about school vulnerability through students' narratives in Chile. Our purpose is to show that "vulnerability" does exist prior to its regulatory and production system.
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    Policies and practices of diversity: reimagining possibilities for new discourses
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2009) Infante, Marta D.; Matus, Claudia
    The processes of globalization have demanded that emergent countries include issues of diversity into their political, economic and educational agendas. Consequently, educational institutions have started, in order to adscribe to requests made by transnational organizations (UNESCO, the World Bank and OECD), to include diversity as a priority to develop curricular proposals and policies for education. This article critiques how diversity discourses have been produced and circulated through public policies within the Chilean educational context. The design of new special education policies in Chile provides a critical context for the uses of diversity, how it is framed and what are the discourses associated with diverse educational contexts. The discussion is organized around two main questions: what are the main discourses of diversity produced by policies and practices and what do policies on diversity do?.
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    Think difference differently? Knowing/becoming/doing with picturebooks
    (2020) Garcia-Gonzalez, Macarena; Veliz, Soledad; Matus, Claudia
    In this article, we explore ways in which arts-based approaches may be deployed to educate ways of knowing/becoming/doing difference differently, particularly when issues of racism and xenophobia come to the front. We present a school research intervention with students and in-service teachers in Santiago, Chile. In this study, we use The Island, a picturebook that produces a narrative of exclusion and fear, instead of promoting tolerance and conviviality. From a new materialist approach, we show engagements or makings of children and adults, sketching out how they defy simplistic ways of thinking and feeling about normative difference. We frame this study as a diffractive research-intervention in which the intertwined and productive relation 'books and readers' allow us to problematize rather than simplify what knowing/becoming/doing with arts may do to the production of difference within school contexts.
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    Undoing diversity: knowledge and neoliberal discourses in colleges of education
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2011) Matus, Claudia; Infante, Marta
    In this article we analyze discourses of 'diversity' in colleges of education in Chile. We contend that the use of discourses of diversity, as reproducing the separation between mainstream subjectivities and those uncontained by the category of normal, is one of the ways universities align themselves with the rules of a democratic society, based on ideas of multicultural understandings and tolerant communities proliferated by inter-governmental institutions such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and others. Our interest is to question the marginalization of cultural politics through the intensification of these discourses. At the same time, we explore the relations between the advancement of neutral discourses of difference and the value-free practices expressed in neoliberal educational agendas. We use discourse analysis to read interviews with future teachers. We understand students' narratives as perpetuating normative ways of thinking and legitimating those knowledges promoted by institutional curricula.
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    Western Patagonia: From Frontiers of Exploration to the Commodification of Nature
    (Springer, 2023) Salazar Burrows, Alejandro Francisco; Matus, Claudia; Olea Peñaloza, Jorge Manuel
    Western Patagonia is a territory whose historical trajectory has beendescribed in terms of the harshness of its colonization processes and the constantstruggle to domesticate nature. These ideas are still in use today. This chapterrefects on two major transformations: frst, the historical and environmental confguration of western Patagonia, including the colonization processes and their continuity up to the present day, and the continuities and ruptures of economic activities,mainly tourism. Second, it describes the current occupation strategies, mainlyfocused on the touristifcation of western Patagonia, understood as a process ofcommodifcation of nature. As a result, we discuss the impact of normative notionsof nature and culture in the production of narratives about western Patagonia, whichconstitute the basis of the practices of the contemporary tourism industry. At thesame time, we identify and consider that the previous production and use of data about the territory provide a particular reality in which the defnition of both socialand natural aspects of the territory must be considered.