After long periods of military dictatorships, civil wars, and economic instability, Latin America has changed face, and become the foremost region for counter-hegemonic processes. This book seeks to address contemporary paradigms of education and learning in Latin America. Although the production of knowledge in the region has long been subject to imperial designs and disseminated through educational systems, recent interventions from liberation theology, popular education, and critical literacy to postcolonial critique and decolonial options have sought to shift the geography of reason....
After long periods of military dictatorships, civil wars, and economic instability, Latin America has changed face, and become the foremost region ...
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.
This book explores diverse contemporary paradigms of educational praxis and learning in Latin America, both non-formal and formal. Each contributor, f...