ABSTRACT
The crisis in Latin America is the product of an imposed homogenizing and globalizing process of modernization. For many marginal sectors, globalization has meant a concentration of cultural and economic power in the hands of a few, and it has led to the masses becoming more homogenized as they share poverty, misery, and a lack of options for the future. According to a well-known administrator of Chilean education reform in the postdictatorial period, Disagreements exist among the major movements or positions and they could become conflictive: the first position favors private activities in education and reduces the role of the state to a secondary one. Every educational project is based on the affirmation of certain principles and historical experiences and the negation of others. Neoliberalism reinforces the economic equations applied to functionalist education to the point that it is possible to use the term "pedagogical neofunctionalism" to describe the theory that frames education and neoliberalism.
