Challenges and issues of southern pedagogies in Latin America.

Abstract

This article addresses the pedagogical problem of the training of Latin American students, taking into account the need to develop educational practices that are capable of a better understanding of the socio-economic and cultural phenomena of the region from its own intellectuality and historicity. In this sense, the development of the so-called southern pedagogies, with their different critical approaches and their educational proposals based on the recognition of otherness and the sociocultural difference of local communities, has been presented since the mid-twentieth century as the favorable situation to reflect on the region, from its own multicultural reality. We think that the issue of educational alternatives in the face of a certain homogeneity of Western pedagogical techniques and methods arises as a real possibility of building an educational system from a properly Latin American theoretical framework, which is much more equitable because it is more sensitive to the needs and aspirations of students in the region.