Education and Human Rights: Approaches from a Critical Latin American Perspective.

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the vision of human rights and education in Latin America from a critical perspective. In recent years, the universality of human rights has been questioning, noting that the peculiarities and sui generis circumstances of the region do not respond to the abstract definitions of law promoted by the West. Understood in this way, the conceptual duo education / human rights have been presented as instruments to reproduce colonial patterns of exclusion and social marginalization, responding to the interests of the global market, as well as the advance of capitalism. With these premises, it is not intended to deny the intrinsic dignity of every human being; on the contrary, it tries to make visible the colonial power structures that have distorted the human condition. The work ends by inviting a critical reading of education and human rights, coming into contact with an anti-hegemonic and anti-systemic rationality, in line with the needs of peoples, real subjects and communities excluded by the logic of modernity