Critical education rehabilitation

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the socio-political implications that the epistemologies of the South have for the Colombian context. These epistemologies are understood from the field of education, under the utopic horizon of human rights, according to Susana Sacavino in his work: Education for human rights and peace: pedagogies from the South. Her thesis here is particularly useful in our context and it’s relevant to understand how “a renewed awareness of these rights and their implementation from education […] is more revolutionary and effective than other efforts at socio-political militancy in other fields” (Casaldàliga and Vigil (, 2014, p. 11). 

To develop this theme, this paper will be divided into three major parts and six chapters. The first part will include the socio-analytic mediation that rehabilitates the critical role of education, on the basis of a brief view of some of the main pedagogical ideas that have taken place in history. The second part will understand the hermeneutic mediation, doing an analysis that seeks to identify the utopic sense of human rights. Finally, with the third part it will be possible to understand the practical implications of the two previous parts, that is, the social implications that come from the pedagogies of the South and the utopian perspective of human rights, to the education in the current context.