ABSTRACT In a time of transformations, Bolivia needs a new interest in education and training teachers in inclusion tasks to overpower exclusion and discrimination, an essential requirement for ethics for the heterogeneous ethnic composition, the cultural and linguistic diversity of the country, understanding human interactions based on being another as an intercultural education...
ABSTRACT This article challenges the concepts of ethics, justice and education for disguising reality to feed the captive mentality that led to modernism. The word "ethics", in its original sense meant simply being. In this sense it was used by Pythagorean school of thought. The word school comes from the Sanskrit word Kula, which reveals the identity of the self with its...
ABSTRACT The essay presents an approach to the education for democracy from John Dewey and Luis Beltrán Prieto. The work explains the currency of the educational proposals, and presents some questions that we believe are relevant in the historical context of the present century in Latin America, with reference to the liberation philosophy of Dussel, the changes suffered in the...
The article begins by specifying "development" as a concept, in the sense of making a critical approach to it as a synonym for "economic growth". Starting from this misunderstanding, we find expressions such as "developed" and "underdeveloped countries". But development is not the same as economic growth. As an evidence we have the social, ethical and human conditions evident in...
ABSTRACT the creations of a particular habitus in the teaching of law, not only as a form of symbolic violence, but as the implementation of forms of discrimination and the acceptance of irrational subordination. In this orientation it develops a score of what modernity means and also the assumptions taken for the teaching of human rights in the legal field. The author argues...
ABSTRACT The article relates ethical conditions of people we know in common place relationships, usually asimetrical, conditions in which we tend to consider the point of view of the imposition of our sense of things or the museum attitude towards the reality of Andean communities. The purpose is to reach a definition of the community as an active entity, linked with the...
ABSTRACT The essay is the reflection about the possibility of ethics that go beyond the social relations of the capitalist society. It states the impossibility of this ethics without dismounting removing the body that formalizes these relationships, that is, the state. The state shows the characteristic of being the most rational form of organization and has established a certain...
ABSTRACT A growing concern in Latin America and the Caribbean is the quality of education that school systems provide their younger generation, according the efforts displayed by all the actors involved in education, the results do not meet the expectations. One of these expectations is that education should be a mechanism to contribute reducing social and economic inequality...
ABSTRACT The approval of the Avelino Siñani-Elizardo Perez Education Act in December 10, 2010, represents a dramatic shift in the way of understanding education and orienting a project to strengthen the identities of peasant indigenous nations that make up Bolivia. Lead by the principles of multiculturalism and decolonization advocated by the State Constitution (2009), the new...
The paper outlines a historical look at the construction of a decolonizing contingency that provokes the refounding of the country constructed from a new horizon that unites decolonizing struggles with class struggles, conjoining anticolonial and anti-imperialist struggle. To develop the theme it is proposed to divide this work in two lines of thought: the first, visible in the...
Bolivia is heir to a colonial tradition embodied in the practices of everyday relatíonships of its political and social agents. In turn, the current historical moment poses the challenge of the re-configuration of a new state, which contributes to the de-construction of the existing colonial structures. However, the question arises, could structures and colonial practices of...
Very controversial is the great industrial leap as a development project to be implemented in Bolivia, the debate revolving around the contrariness of the same with the "good living" approach, yet there are substantive contradictions that go beyond a simple analysis of feasibility and economic cost involving industrialization. This essay addresses the issue of development from...
Bolivia's army was the first institution of the Armed Forces who has moved into a project that has been called "Social Inclusión", since framed within the intercultural process of the Armed Forces, with the idea that by including Indians in the main training institute for military officials, this would give way to de facto interculturalism. This document reviews the history and...
All forms of addressing the issues of colonization and decolonization answer a particular approach to history. In Bolivia, as in other countries, the predominant view, the officially secular one, was deeply and widely marked by colonial chroniclers, while presented and applied as an objective, scientific and neutral point of view. This epistemological position was replicated with...
This articie deals with trie analysis of consumerism that is considered one of trie more subtle forms of economic and cultural colonizatíon in the context of a synchronous and hightly consuming society. Guided by the ideological premises of a (super)culture merely quantitatíve and materialistic, we see that it is leading firm steps to assured decay and breakdown. The starting...
The external and internal colonization imposed on many Latín American societíes brought not only a complex process of dominatíon over large populatíons, but the same process was accompanied by a categorical epistemic framework on which the validity of knowledge productíon was questioned when its axes were not the principies of modern societíes. Already for several years a number...
The document presents a review of all projects undertaken by the General Coordination of Intercultural and Bilingual Education (CGEIB) at all educational levéis of the Mexican educational system, projects that seek to develop curriculum models that focus on the recognition of diversity and teacher training. The CGEIB understands that intercultural and bilingual education are...
This work is based on a questionnaire given to 650 public employees of the City Government of La Paz from September 7 to September 25, 2009, as part of a series of conferences given at III-CAB on "Interculturality and the New Constitution". This is not a description of the data, but rather we rely on statistical tools to build a theoretical framework that helps us understand the...
The article discusses the importance of seeing "interculturality" as beyond the relationships between cultures, it is necessary to see that it involves not just a cultural dimension, but requires a deeper questioning of the "ourselves", it is a review of our relationships, a form of being and how we perceive ourselves, it enters a non-objectified dimension of culture and moves...
The paper reviews the work and makes a reconstruction of the life experience of writer Fausto Reinaga. His work gave rise to the indianismo as a contemporary political thought. Reviewing the intellectual work of Reinaga, we recognise three moments: the early production against the oligarchy; the linkage to marxism and nationalism and the period of the incubation of the political...
This essay seeks to feed an open discussion around the theme of decolonization, after making a review of authors from different theoretical perspectives. The central idea of this paper is to report about the colonial condition. For this we emphasize the concept of internal colonialism according to Gonzáles Casanova, who argues that the Indian community is a colony within the...
ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL ReseñaSacristán, J. G. (Ed.). (2006). La reforma necesaria: Entre la política educativa y la práctica escolar. Madrid: Morata, 190. María Cecilia BocchioDante Javier Salto La presente publicación constituye una compilación realizada por J. Gimeno Sacristán sobre las intervenciones efectuadas por reconocidos académicos en el marco de la conferencia titulada La...
ABSTRACT The adoption of the new Political Constitution of Bolivia Multicountry in January this year, has shifed the conception of justice, since justice from indigenous communities has been incorporated, leading to a pluralistic system in law. Despite this significant inclusion of what has been called community justice there is a deep misunderstanding of it's real meaning. In...
ABSTRACT The axis on which turns the reflection of this article is about the intimate connection between funding mechanisms and management arrangements. In the last twenty years the debate on the issue Bolivian university has been characterized by its dimensionality. The allocation of more funds for the IES, has tended to obscure or omit some hidden facets related to educational...