Abstract

In recent years, literature tends to show the progress and flourishing of early childhood and care in Chile (ECEC). However, the neoliberal reforms of the last three decades face some criticism. In this context, the present article argues that ECEC has not been exempt from the influence of neoliberalism and individuals in this educational level do not have equal access and fair treatment. The argument is developed through three paradoxes: (1) how global discourses of multiagency in ECEC policies have found fertile soil for de- velopment in the Chilean context, mostly because of the neoliberal rationale underlying in its educational system; (2) the tensions and contradictions emerging in the Chilean ECEC multiagency work, organized un- der a principle called Seven in one Blow represent specific tensions arising from the influence of the global on the local; and, (3) as a result of the previous two paradigms that also feeds back to them, limitations in Chilean children’s experiences of childhood emerge and are under the notion of nautonomic structures. Throughout these paradoxes colonial discourses are validated and re-created into new ones, generating neo- colonial trajectories of knowledge.