Educational Alternatives in Latin America: New Modes of Counter-Hegemonic Learning

ISBN-13: 9783319534497 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 233 str.

Timothy Ireland; Robert Aman

Opis

This book explores diverse contemporary paradigms of educational praxis and learning in Latin America, both non-formal and formal. Each contributor, from different geographical locations, focuses on theoretical and empirical positions, discusses the broader theme of how in times of historical ruptures, political reconstructions and epistemic formations, the production of paradigms rooted in 'other' logics, cosmologies and realities may renegotiate and redefine concepts of education, learning and knowledge.

Recenzje

"Woods is a very good writer, opinionated also about the words he uses: choosing, say, 'impalpable' for abstract, 'site' for world, or labels like 'no spine-no readers' views, or 'command and control epistemology'. This makes the book an enjoyable read. I unhesitatingly recommend it to readers interested in these topics ... ." (Manuel García-Carpintero, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, September, 2018)

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Educational Alternatives in Latin America: New Modes of Counter-Hegemonic Learning

Chapter 2. Against the Episteme of Domination and the Coloniality of Reality: Andean Formations of Subversive Subjectivities, Dissident Knowledges and Rebel Realities

Chapter 3. In search of the good life: promises and challenges of Buen Vivir for knowledge, education and gender

Chapter 4. “Never Again a Mexico without Us:” Education and Indigenous Autonomy Struggles in Mexico

Chapter 5. "Everything has a beginning and an end and we are on our way:” Transformative agency in the Colombian Preparation for Social Action Program

Chapter 6. Beyond Achievement: Colombia’s Escuela Nueva and the Creation of Active Citizens

Chapter 7. Counter hegemonic higher education in a remote coastal region of Brazil: the Federal University of Southern Bahia as a case study

Chapter 8. Community University of the Rivers: Cultivating transformative pedagogies within formal education in the Amazon

Chapter 9. (Decolonial) Notes to Paulo Freire Walking and Asking

O autorze

Robert Aman is Lecturer in Education at the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.

Timothy Ireland is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil.

Blurb

This book explores diverse contemporary paradigms of educational praxis and learning in Latin America, both formal and non-formal. Each contributor offers a unique perspective on the factors which lead to the production of paradigms rooted in ‘other’ logics, cosmologies, and realities, and how these factors may renegotiate and redefine concepts of education, learning, and knowledge. The various chapters provide a road map for scholars, activists, artists, students, organizations, and social movements to help begin to construct learning spaces that seek to engage with a new more horizontal form of participatory democracy.