(Chile) Policy Impacts on First-Generation & First-Generation Indigenous Students

Today we are speaking with Dr. Andrea Flanagan-Bórquez and Dr. Andrew Webb about different policies  and their effects on first-generation and first-generation indigenous students in Chile. Our guests provide the context of Chile’s higher education system and indigenous communities and proceed to share findings from their research and discussions with first-generation students. Dr. Andrea Flanagan-Bórquez is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Valparaíso where she conducts research on first-generation students and comparative education, and Dr. Andrew Webb is an Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he focuses on the educational trajectories of Mapuche youth.  Webb, A. (2022). Indigenous Identity Formation in Chilean Education: New Racism in Schooling Experiences of Mapuche Youth. (Book) Flanagan-Bórquez, A., Rojas-Murphy Tagle, A., Guzmán-Valenzuela, C., & Varas-Aguilera, P. (2023). Análisis crítico del estado de la investigación sobre estudiantes de primera generación en Latinoamérica. (Article) Guzmán-Vlaenzueal, C., Darwin, S., Flanagan, A., Aguilera-Muñoz, A., & Geldres, A. (2022). (Un)Limited choice: analysing the strategic choices fo first-in-generation students in neoliberal higher education. Segovia Gonzalez, F. & Flanagan-Borquez, A. (2019). Challenges of Being a First-generation Indigenous Student in Today's Chilean Universities.