Latin American Foundations Of Education: From Postcolonialism, Coloniality Of Power to Ayotinapa and the Normalistas.

• In Event: Countering Coloniality

Abstract

Since modernist perspectives have dominated the foundations of education throughout history in Latin America, I think that taking into account silenced or colonized voices of Latin American education can enriches and challenges the monocultural Western foundations of education. In this paper I briefly describe the process that goes from epistemicidios (destruction of ways of knowing), colonialism, postcolonialism and coloniality of power. In this process, I address how whereas postcolonialism is the Eurocentric critic against the Western canon, coloniality of power hast a different point of departure: the non Eurocentric epistemological ethos from Latin America. I would especially like to address the case of Ayotizapa, the 43 Normalistas from Mexico who were forcibly taken and then disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico as lived and concrete examples of how there are specific peoples that have been anonimously produced Latin American foundations of education.

Author

• RAUL OLMO FREGOSO BAILON, West Chester University of Pennsylvania