Description

In the following lines, this thoughtful article aims to open up criticism and hope for education about what is happening in 2020: a pandemic that mobilizes and energizes life, the economy, politics, and the states of mortality of human beings. This is the dichotomy that opens between the life and death of an entire population that inhabits planet Earth. The fragility of the human being is exposed by a pandemic that until now, neither science nor the great powers have been able to stop, causing him affectation, as a mass subject who is on the verge of death. The ‘ser-a-la-mano’ of Heidegger becomes valid in these times. We find existence and value in things when they cease to be useful to us; now everything becomes something valuable: to see the wheels of the cars that roll, to hear the sounds of electrical appliances, the plants in our house, our breathing, everything begins to have a different meaning. That is why throughout this think-piece article we will work on the meaning that education takes in this situation called the COVID-19 pandemic. Against this, pedagogy and the curriculum are involved and called as two dissonant aspects in Colombian education. Critical hermeneutics is taken into account as a methodological approach for the documentary analysis of the categories that we want to make known, such as: pedagogy, curriculum, and pandemic.