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What We Believe Is Imperative for Education in Latin America

Received: 10 February 2023    Accepted: 28 February 2023    Published: 9 March 2023
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The consequences of scientific illiteracy are much more dangerous in our era than in any previous one. Professionals must know their field, but at the same time possess ethical and moral values, whose purpose is to seek the common good, since knowledge implies the capacity for social action. There is a new computer culture without age limits or borders. Therefore, to achieve the desired development; the whole society must be involved. This challenge can be a valuable resource to form critical, reflective, and socially prepared citizens and internationalization must ensure that human solidarity with true respect for the multiculturalism of each country is not lacking. Science does not remain basic indefinitely, eventually, it becomes applied science and evolves into technology, then modulates to industrial practice, and knowledge becomes power. Our universities must promote the acquisition of knowledge and procedures, but at the same time, they must awaken ethical values in young people. Far from training young people for life, they are trained only for productivity and economic profitability. Educating for life requires guiding scenarios to affirm the multiversity of life. Educational agents meet to make themselves known and live the experience of knowing themselves as another, of welcoming the other in otherness. It is imperative that the student not only learn what he receives in the teaching-learning process but also needs to understand and evaluate what he has learned in different contexts and transform the information received into his own knowledge. Current education must implement comprehensive and uplifting perspective at all educational levels. The pedagogical intervention must change education inside their own cultural area, so that the student becomes actors of his own time. This educational process is called the "mesoaxiological perspective of Pedagogy". Our professionals must strive to create, to produce the scientific-technical knowledge that we need, they must know how to handle the epistemological bases that sustain them, and convert the information they handle into knowledge that allows them to be builders of the socioeconomic transformation that our beautiful countries deserve.

Published in Education Journal (Volume 12, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.edu.20231202.12
Page(s) 59-62
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Keywords

Otherness, Teaching-Learning Process, Comprehensive and Uplifting Perspective, Mesoaxiological Perspective of Pedagogy

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