IntroducciónCulturas, desarrollo humano y escuela: Hacia el diseño cultural de la educación
- Álvarez, Amelia
- Río Pereda, Pablo del
ISSN: 1135-6405, 1578-4118
Datum der Publikation: 2001
Titel der Ausgabe: Culturas, desarrollo humano y escuela. Hacia el diseño cultural de la educación
Ausgabe: 13
Nummer: 1
Seiten: 9-16
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Culture and Education, Cultura y Educación
Zusammenfassung
Some reflections are offered concerning how traditional communities can approach the problem of schooling, while combining cultural preservation and access to modern culture, primarily promoted by western schooling. The paper suggests that, as rationalism and scientific thinking are the makings of historical cultural mechanisms of instrumental and social mediations�both different but similar to the mediational mechanisms within every culture�an encounter is possible if schooling is designed from the culture itself and not from a supposed abstract model of universal a-cultural rationalism. This cultural design of schooling revalues the human aspects of non-individualistic cultures�the makings of a communitarian mind�traditionally neglected in the educational models of individualistic cultures. Finally, a cultural design of schooling based upon activity systems, rather than upon a-cultural abstract principles, is demanded.