Latin American Critical Pedagogies: A Hermeneutic Study (PEDAGOCRÍTICA)

This project addresses the need to transform the Latin American educational paradigm, historically influenced by hegemonic Western conceptions that rendered local knowledge invisible and promoted a banking model of teaching. This traditional model turned the student into a passive recipient and the educator into an alienating figure of power. In response to this reality of domination, various Latin American thinkers proposed a critical and liberating pedagogy. The central objective is to hermeneutically analyze the theoretical and epistemological foundations of these key thinkers (such as Freire, Mariátegui, and Walsh) to foster critical consciousness in the educational subject. The methodology employed is qualitative, focused on understanding and interpreting facts through the hermeneutic method. The goal is to promote an education where all actors actively construct knowledge, allowing the subject to emerge from oppression and transform the surrounding socio-educational and political reality, thereby contributing to the academic work of the Salesian Polytechnic University.<br/><br/><b>Goal</b>: <br/>To analyze the theoretical and epistemological postulates of the main thinkers of Latin American critical pedagogies using a hermeneutic perspective, in order to contribute to the academic process of the Salesian Polytechnic University.<br/><br/><b>Research lines</b>: <br/>Epistemologies, knowledge and interculturality