Educational theory, humanities and university curricular reforms: Is there a university educational model for Latin America?

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https://doi.org/10.5377/ryr.v1i59.18710

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theory of education, curriculum, humanities, technology, El Salvador

Abstract

Will there be a pedagogical knowledge founded from the entrails of the intellectuality of Latin America, and will it be possible to overcome the world framework between the global and the "glocal", to ensure an autochthonous pedagogical thought to rebuild the educational identity for Latin America? The answers are complex, but at the same time, challenging to understand some historical background of the theory of education and its impact on the processes of university reforms, which were decisive for social change, from the contexts, science and technology, art, philosophy and all the knowledge that has been treasured by humanity throughout its history, given the level of influence of the knowledge society in the political fluctuation and the belief that the humanities are only "soft skills". In this sense, the essay is oriented towards the analysis of the correlation between humanities and curriculum, as value referents about the dependence on the technical conception of educational sciences, its identity nullity and the dynamization of teachers' knowledge centered on technology and on the positivist referents of scientific knowledge, which states that education must be developed from the obsession for objectivity and the mastery of competences and skills marked by employment and by the university-economy links.

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Author Biography

Juan Carlos Escobar Baños, El Salvador University

Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de El Salvador
Maestría en Profesionalización de la Docencia Superior, Universidad de El Salvador
Doctorado en Educación con Especialidad en Educación Superior, Universidad de El Salvador en convenio con la Universidad José Enrique Varona de Cuba
Docente de la Facultad Multidisciplinaria de Occidente, Universidad de El Salvador

Published

2024-08-24

How to Cite

Escobar Baños, J. C. (2024). Educational theory, humanities and university curricular reforms: Is there a university educational model for Latin America?. Reality and Reflection, 1(59), 117–141. https://doi.org/10.5377/ryr.v1i59.18710

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