Anti-colonial epistemic disobedience in the education system: Michoacan and Oaxaca as experiences of post-colonial educational construction in Mexico
Por:
Diez-Gutierrez, Enrique-Javier, Jarquin-Ramirez, Mauro-Rafael
Publicada:
1 jul 2023
Resumen:
This paper aims to analyse the educational policies, practices and
pedagogies which, based on anti-colonial epistemic disobedience, are
helping to advance in the present and in the future towards more
equitable, just and sustainable relations in the construction of an
``other society'' in Mexico. Two (trans)local experiences from the
State of Michoacan and the State of Oaxaca have been chosen because of
their relevance in the Mexican educational system, because of their lack
of knowledge at the international level, as there are hardly any studies
on the subject, and because of their long history of anti-colonial
educational practice by the educational communities of both states,
which is significantly extended and affects the educational policies
being developed in Mexico. The research methodology used was Critical
Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the working documents of significant
(trans)local educational experiences in the states of Michoacan and
Oaxaca and in-depth interviews with those responsible for these
experiences. The findings reflect that (trans)local participatory and
engaged action-research experiences and practices have been generated
and maintained in these states which, in some cases more globally and in
other cases more locally, have promoted forms of epistemic disobedience
against the educational and social colonialism that is advancing in
Ibero-America. In the discussion it is argued that the results reflect
that not all educational communities have the same level and involvement
in anti-colonial resistance and that not all strategies for promoting a
decolonial pedagogy that is unsubmissive to neoliberalism and capitalism
are always shared within them.
Filiaciones:
Univ Leon, Fac Educ, Leon, Spain
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Filosofia & Letras, Mexico City, Mexico
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