Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

In present day Chilean society, to obtain success is transoformed into a vital objective in the fact that survival is a key element in reaching this goal. The effects that this is generating en the youth population in impoverished sectors is a subject that we approach in this article. The opulent consumption, stimulated by promotion agencies within this process of interchange, appears as the process of greater incidence in the search to obtain or acheive the demand-wished profit; from here other it is possible to conjugate another two processes in the world of youth: efficient labor insertion, in which any questioning regarding the labor conditions is avoided, and it concentrates in the valuation that access has in as much as grants resources to enter the circuit of the opulent consumption and technological modernization, as a process of access, use and valuation of the technologies, especially the communicational ones, such as instruments to secure the prestige that the modernization grants in our societies. Nevertheless, it is the poorer ones whom are being left outside these processes by the high exclusion that they experience, which is why, to avoid that condition, they generate strategies that allow them to survive and, to a lesser extent, resist being an outsider in the celebration of success.

EN ESTE TEXTO, INTENTAMOS comprender cómo se configuran y establecen las relaciones intergeneracionales en el sistema educativo, en particular en el espacio del liceo. Para ello, comenzaremos haciendo una aproximación al concepto de generación desde una perspectiva histórica y sociocultural, para así introducirnos a cómo estas relaciones se despliegan al interior de cada unidad educativa y cuáles son los efectos que provocan en su convivencia escolar. Una tríada nos servirá como esquema de análisis de esas relaciones en el liceo, para posteriormente plantear algunos desafíos que surgen en la búsqueda de aportar a la reconstrucción de los puentes que se han roto entre los mundos jóvenes y los mundos adultos.