PHILOSOPHY OF LATIN AMERICAN EDUCATION

The Latin American education becomes today a privileged object of critic and insomnia, as well as of hope setting in the fruit of so many efforts guided to transform it and to improve it. But, if we don't want, like it seems to be happening at the moment, that such transformations are under the almost exclusive orientation of powers governed by predominant economics and market interests, it becomes necessary the competition of multiple knowledge, one indispensable of them, philosophy. Essential contribution to this need, is the proposal of the present work, which can offer Xavier Zubiri's thought and his creative pupil Ignacio Ellacuria. Indeed, as it will try to show the horizon of the philosophy of the historical reality allows to assume the educational task in the perspective of a practice that goes beyond the secular intents of unified acculturation or of the renovated purposes of excluding differentiation, one and other corrosives of the multicultural wealth of the peoples of our America and disclaimers of the possibility of building a common historical project of more justice and freedom.