Educational research in Chilean State Universities: critical knots and proposals to transcend the logics of performativity and the market

Abstract

The study is part of the Network of Universities of the State of Chile initiative, aimed at promoting associative research, collaboration, and reciprocity between universities. This article makes visible the state of the art of research in education and the operating conditions of 10 Chilean State Universities that teach Education careers. The research is undertaken from a mixed, sequential exploratory design of derivative modality, which involved a phase of lifting and gathering information and applying a survey with quantitative and qualitative components. The results give an account of critical knots related to market logics in higher education that distort the nature of academic work, generating territorial, gender, and knowledge circulation inequalities in education. State policies are demanded, which narrow the gaps between universities leading in research and those with a low level of development.