Luchas educativas, anticolonialismo y socialismo

Overview & Synopsis

This book examines the contributions of Latin American revolutionary thinkers to the field of education, particularly the approaches of Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930) and Bolivian René Zavaleta Mercado (1937-1984), engaging them in dialogue to reflect on the political and educational challenges of the present. As Fabián and Lucía argue, these revolutionaries were thinkers who complemented each other in their efforts to articulate anti-colonial struggles as well as anti-imperialist and socialist struggles. Our authors, however, were not content to limit the dialogue at that level. Like the thinkers they studied and their shared political and theoretical references, they understand that the production of ideas must serve the advancement of the practices of popular movements and organizations, "central actors in the processes of profound change in social reality." Therefore, in preparing this book, they decided to broaden the dialogue, incorporating into the same circle educational practices that had Mariátegui and Zavaleta as sources of inspiration and active reference: the "Schools of Study and Work in Coeducation" in Huayopampa, Peru, and the "Ayllu School" of Warisata, Bolivia, which developed between 1940 and 1970 and between 1931 and 1940, respectively. In this new layer of dialogue, in addition to making these experiences known, they sought to capture in them elements necessary for the historical construction of a pedagogy with a socialist perspective.