Descripción

This text aims to analyze the teleology of education in the Latin American social context, based on the work of the philosopher Enrique Dussel, entitled “The Latin American pedagogical”, supported in turn with readings of the approaches of educator Paulo Freire. The analysis is guided through a qualitative paradigm and a hermeneutical approach, with its specificity of Latin American hermeneutics, thus being able to show that the role of education in Latin America has a double connotation: on the one hand, to provide tools for the liberation of the oppressed peoples historically, especially, for hegemonic cultures such as the Eurocentric, and on the other, to teach to live in the difference, accepting and respecting the other.