Ideology disguised as utopia

ISBN-13: 9786207098910 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str.

Enrique Fortoúl Contreras Ramírez

Opis

I am one of those who believe, as do many people, that education from colonial times to the present day has been managed as an ideological instrument for the domination given by power relations. That education has always been managed expressing the interests of the class that dominates and responding to a "truth" imposed in an alienating way, so that they never questioned the instruction received, where reflection, analysis does not touch the brain of the learner, thus becoming the "formation" of a huge herd that is herded according to the objectives, purposes and goals of the ruler, keeping it isolated from a reality that gradually enslaves and plunges into intellectual and material poverty to the vast majority of the population. There are those who pretend to ignore that the genesis of our educational systems in Latin America, including the Caribbean, was born as a result of a relationship of force, that is to say, of power relations. That power was used at that time, so that education would fulfill the purpose, the objective and the end so that it would have a USEFUL value in the service of God and the Spanish Metropolitan State -in other words- USEFUL to God and the King.