Alternativas a la escuela:

notas para una conversación descolonial

Abstract

The school as a pedagogical device of education was born in eurocentral modernity, a shared experience that we still inhabit today with our minds and bodies In this article we seek to compose discursive practices that encourage the recognition of (other) ways of representing the living, feeling and doing of education.. In this way, we deepen one of the lines of the research project called “Alternative Education Forms in the 21st Century”, which was developed within the framework of the “Group of Researchers in Education and Cultural Studies” (GIEEC) of the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of Mar del Plata. Such line discusses the decolonial views and its influence in the Latin American educational debates. We specifically focus on the (de)colonization of the being stemming from the dialogue and reflection upon some alternative school experiences hereby analyzed. We aim at portraying the convergence of diverse educational experiences that struggle for new formats beyond the scholar one as well as the emergent regional conversation that Latin America is proposing for an decolonial education which departs from us.