Ecology of knowledge and pedagogy: a sociocultural critique of the capitalist culture in Latin America

Abstract

This work demonstrates an analytical journey through the possible dimensions of a Latin American pedagogy. Relying in part on the sociological contemplation of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, it seeks to rethink the historical-ontological relationship of pedagogy in contemporary culture. The investigation aims to build an understanding of the concept of pedagogy based on inquiries into the contemporary sociocultural reality, establishing in its discursive eventuality a philosophical critique that involves time, cultural character, and the human essence present in education. The document presents interpretations that enable a type of criticism regarding the crisis of the progress paradigm based in global capitalism. The article establishes possible perceptions from the hermeneutic scope that divides a possible characterization of the pedagogical while replicating another sense in its discourse, giving rise to the heterogeneity that implies an ecology of knowledge.