Social representations on the right to Education: The demands of the Chilean student movement through the vision of the national newspaper El Mercurio during the years 2011 and 2014

Abstract

This article proposes the analysis of the construction of meaning that the national newspaper El Mercurio made on the demands of the student movement of 2011 and 2014 in Chile, regarding the right to Education. It seeks to identify thematic trends which allows to unveil the social representations that the informative texts promoted. For this purpose, the Atlas.ti software and the theoretical triangulation between Social Mediation (Martín Serrano, 2009), the Public Action Framework (Subirats, Knoepel, Larrue and Varobe, 2012) and Critical Discourse Analysis (Van Dijk, 1998, 2003), were used. The results show a noticeable approach to services and a limited coverage to issues that address education as a right.