Análisis crítico de discurso del Decreto 170 de subvención diferenciada para necesidades educativas especiales: El diagnóstico como herramienta de gestión.

Abstract

The Decree 170, a derivation of the demand subsidy model of education or voucher system implemented in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, is a formula to subsidize schools administered by privates, and which aims to improve the school integration of Chilean  children who have "special needs." To apply for these funds schools need expert diagnosis to corroborate the existence of the problem through diagnostic tools that provide validity, reliability and consistency. This work, using a critical analysis of discourse methodology, seeks to understand the diagnosis not only as an effort to shape, guide and direct the behavior of others. I analyze the use of diagnosis that is part  of a biomedical discourse, with all the means of production available for medicine, as a management tool. Diagnosis is a criteria which may be concluded from a positivist and objective discursive order to make "fair" decisions, (objective, reproducible, and supposedly compassionate) in order to rationalize spending on education, without go further in the socio-politics of the integration as a process