Interculturality has been favoured within the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as an essential precept of recognition of the otherness concept. For this reason, it is necessary to know and valué ecological knowledge and linguistic, social, territorial and cultural specificities that, for ages, indigenous cultures have developed in order to establish a balanced...
The Amerindian communities have lived through a series of colonization in the different historie episodes, which have subjugated their understanding of complexity and imposed uniformity on them. The most evident forms of colonizad onhave beenreligious and cultural; nevertheless, with the latter also carne a technological colonization that captured achievements of the knowledge...
In the context of socio-cultural diversity and the narratives about the interculturality and knowledge dialogues, it is indispensable to re-think a pedagogy that potentializes said processes. The arricie thus suggests a vulnerable pedagogy, an adjective that acknowledges the vulnerability of human existence and its knowledge. This recognitíon explodes in the reflexibility of...
The wealth of information and knowledge in all scientific and technological áreas has increased exponentially since the end of the last century. We can add to this the riches of the ancestral and popular knowledge, which have recently gained new significance in our societies thanks to the battles the indigenous people fought during the past years and the spaces that were...
This essay questions the monopoly of western science with respect to knowledge and assumes the necessity to re-encounter and re-affirm the presence of other knowledge systems, consolidating the interculturality of the pluralistic world. We thus posit the necessity of a knowledge dialogue that permits for the necessary plurality of beliefs and values, expressing respect for and...
Generally, when social exclusion is addressed, it is related to poverty; however, this article shows social exclusion as a two-dimensional and multisector concept. Besides, exclusion cannot be understood without addressing social inclusion, but rather than being antagonistic concepts, both show the dialectical movement of societies. Instead of merely generating new perspectives...
Departing from Walter Benjamin's interpretation of Paul Klee's painting, Angelus Novus, this article emphasizes the necessity of re-thinking sociology as a discipline that focuses on youth as an object of study. Three reasons are put forward: ontological, epistemological and political. Each one reveals that youth shares common traits with another phenomenon, the everydayness...
This article initiates a series of preliminary reflections that are being developed in relation to the formation of a critical citizenship, an important topic at this time, which calls for a profound reflection about the human being as a subject in interrelations and interactions with others in order to contribute to the reconstruction and reconstitution of concepts, criteria and...
This article analyzes the influence of the information and communication technologies in the formation of citizenship values, emphasizing the importance of education in this process and the increasing relevance that these technologies are acquiring for the realization of citizenship in the social mobilizations, citizen activism and social organization mobilized for social...
The ideas discussed in this article describe the new manifestations of the culturalist discourse of capitalism, expressed through the promotion of intraculturality and interculturality. At the same time, the author suggests how community education can be developed based on the learning and the knowledge of indigenous people.Keywords : Learning and knowledge dialogues...
The practices of citizens can be understood based on the mutual relationship between system and citizen environment. The economic and political fields that are part of the citizen system define what kind of civic responsibility should be practiced, whether it be liberal or communal. The specific elements that are part of these fields are related with the kind of economic and...
Citizenship is an important concept for the understanding of modern political communities; however, its universalization has always been conflictive, especially in territories that have not achieved to overcome the imagined or actual practices of ethno-cultural exclusion and discrimination. This essay shows the heterogeneous politics that emerge from the difference between the...
Along its historical formation, citizenship has gone through different stages, which start from the more classist and exclusionary views to the process of gradual inclusion of people in the condition of citizens thanks to social achievements. Those have allowed this ascending movement in search of inclusion in the political, economic and social life, with repercussions in the...
This article develops a critical and socio-political reflection of the relationship between democracy, citizenship and education, with a basis in the combination of theoretical contributions of western scholarship and the progress of the actual praxis related to the processes of socio-political changes in Latin America and the Caribbean. The concept of democracy and the forms of...
Generally, when social exclusion is addressed, it is related to poverty; however, this article shows social exclusion as a two-dimensional and multisector concept. Besides, exclusion cannot be understood without addressing social inclusion, but rather than being antagonistic concepts, both show the dialectical movement of societies. Instead of merely generating new perspectives...
Departing from Walter Benjamin's interpretation of Paul Klee's painting, Angelus Novus, this article emphasizes the necessity of re-thinking sociology as a discipline that focuses on youth as an object of study. Three reasons are put forward: ontological, epistemological and political. Each one reveals that youth shares common traits with another phenomenon, the everydayness...
In the everlasting discussion between representative democracy and participatory democracy, the most important sacrifice was active citizen participation, often restricted through norms and voting practices; at other times it was hampered with and often manipulated. The new times of revolution and change in Latin America and the Caribbean demanded from most governments the...
This article initiates a series of preliminary reflections that are being developed in relation to the formation of a critical citizenship, an important topic at this time, which calls for a profound reflection about the human being as a subject in interrelations and interactions with others in order to contribute to the reconstruction and reconstitution of concepts, criteria and...
This article analyzes the influence of the information and communication technologies in the formation of citizenship values, emphasizing the importance of education in this process and the increasing relevance that these technologies are acquiring for the realization of citizenship in the social mobilizations, citizen activism and social organization mobilized for social...
The ideas discussed in this article describe the new manifestations of the culturalist discourse of capitalism, expressed through the promotion of intraculturality and interculturality. At the same time, the author suggests how community education can be developed based on the learning and the knowledge of indigenous people.Keywords : Learning and knowledge dialogues...
The practices of citizens can be understood based on the mutual relationship between system and citizen environment. The economic and political fields that are part of the citizen system define what kind of civic responsibility should be practiced, whether it be liberal or communal. The specific elements that are part of these fields are related with the kind of economic and...
Citizenship is an important concept for the understanding of modern political communities; however, its universalization has always been conflictive, especially in territories that have not achieved to overcome the imagined or actual practices of ethno-cultural exclusion and discrimination. This essay shows the heterogeneous politics that emerge from the difference between the...
Along its historical formation, citizenship has gone through different stages, which start from the more classist and exclusionary views to the process of gradual inclusion of people in the condition of citizens thanks to social achievements. Those have allowed this ascending movement in search of inclusion in the political, economic and social life, with repercussions in the...
This article develops a critical and socio-political reflection of the relationship between democracy, citizenship and education, with a basis in the combination of theoretical contributions of western scholarship and the progress of the actual praxis related to the processes of socio-political changes in Latin America and the Caribbean. The concept of democracy and the forms of...