From the history of education to education as history: the Latin American case
Keywords:
education, history, Latin America, epistemology, ontology, ancestral knowledge, teaching, educational technologyAbstract
Reflecting on education inevitably entails examining its historical, political, and cultural dimensions, as well as its epistemological and ontological turns within the Latin American context. This editorial offers a critical and contemporary reinterpretation of the history of education, understanding education not as a closed narrative of the past but as an active, present-centered historical practice. Its objective is to challenge the hegemonic narratives that have written about education through universalist and disciplinary lenses, and to promote a broader conception that embraces ancestral knowledge, the agency of objects, emerging technologies, and historically silenced voices, including those ones of educators. The methodology is based on a reflective-analytical approach, supported by a critical review of relevant literature and a philosophical problematization of key concepts. In conclusion, the text proposes that thinking of education as history means acknowledging its dynamic, contextual, and unfinished nature. It is a tool for social transformation that must engage with the present and envision the future through the lenses of diversity and epistemic justice.
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