Building Decolonizing Pedagogies: Notes from Work Praxis in Social Organizations

ANAHÍ GUELMAN; MARÍA MERCEDES PALUMBO

Revista Colombiana de Educación

Universidad Pedagógica Nacional

Lugar: bogotá; Año: 2019

This article is based on the work and reflections expressed in the qualitative research carried out in self-managed cooperative and productive ventures by an Argentinean social organization. A series of provisional notes are presented regarding the characteristics that, based on fieldwork and aligned with previous research, we consider key in conceptualizing decolonizing pedagogies. As posited in this article, thinking about decolonizing pedagogies implies addressing: 1) place of knowledge and ?other? epistemic subjects; 2) potential of labor as an educational principle; 3) inserting training into daily life and the community; 4) openness to emotions; and finally, 5) collective framework. The reflections on these five aspects seek to open possibilities of problematizing and discussing pedagogies with thepurpose of decentralizing colonial education.