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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

The new democratic statutes of the regional state universities

Authors

  • Gabriela Prado Prado Universidad de Chile
  • Mario Durán Migliardi Universidad de Atacama

Abstract

25 years after democracy was restored in Chile, institutional rules of regional state universities still keep their content markedly authoritarian, allegedly neutral in its institutional definition and intervened by the Central Government in the appointment of the members of his superiors collegiate authorities. In this context, the transition towards democratization of these institutions and their legitimacy as instruments of regional development, necessarily involves repealing these regulatory rules and their replacement by others, ensuring their democratic performance; oriented goals and values built through deliberative and participatory processes. Also, the entire university community is called to a transformation process under rational values of the university institutional system, involving goals of rational actions. The purpose of this paper is then to describe procedures and mechanisms that would let major institutions to be legitimized development tools , endowed with decision-making systems that could guarantee democratic, transparent processes and an effective relationship with the environment.

Keywords:

Statutes, State universities, Democracy

Author Biography

Gabriela Prado Prado, Universidad de Chile

Directores

Revista Pedagogía Universitaria y Didáctica del Derecho

María Francisca Elgueta Rosas

Renato Duro Dias