Education in Latin America, what could we do?

Abstract

Education has had different trends throughout history. The teaching-learning process has been modified through generations. Each region or country had its own characteristics that differentiated them. With the socioeconomic approach of globalization, these regional characteristics have been lost. After World War II, the so-called modernity in Western countries has tried to unify criteria and equalize learning methods with the aim of reducing the knowledge and technology gap that exists among the most developed countries and those that are still developing. For our Latin American subcontinent, which despite its cultural diversity shares common histories and traditions, trying to adapt our teaching methods to those developed in the countries of the northern hemisphere could be considered a hegemonic imposition or a neocolonization. Our ethnic and cultural diversity needs its own methods that help educate current and new generations in principles of solidarity, inclusion, fraternal understanding, and respect among all. It is urgent to know how to teach by educating, and influencing the formation of constructive learning so that the educable subject contributes to the construction of better worlds. Teaching-learning methods without discrimination, with the desire to grow in the community, to have upright citizens, and to achieve the self-development that our countries need. A development with everyone and for the good of all.