Curricular Innovations in Secondary Education
Experiences of three Chilean schools transforming their curriculum

The book presents a study of three Chilean schools that transformed their high school curriculum. The first is an elite school that developed a high school education that was “more scientific, collaborative, and constructivist than traditional HC high school education.” The second is a public comprehensive high school in a semi-rural setting that developed a “quasi-university” curriculum where students study a common core with four broad areas of electives. The third is a technical-vocational high school for Mapuche students whose curricular model is “doubly countercultural” for introducing cosmovision into the curriculum. Together, the three cases show that it is possible to transform the curriculum within the framework of existing regulations, even though it is complex and requires a culture of curriculum development.