Name/Nombre: Alicia de Alba
Title/Título: Latin American CurriculumToday.
Affiliation/Afiliación: Investigadora en Teoría y Educación en el Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación (IISUE) en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Keynote Address:
For this conference, I discuss the notion of the now, or present moment, in Latin American Curriculum Studies, by way of subjectivity and identity. The paper to be presented is organized in three parts. First, I analyze and stress the concept of “present moment”, given its complexity in terms of the timing and meaning of our writing and reading. Second, I point out some aspects about the structure of “present moment”, where different elements define the recent past in regard to our subjectivities and identities as Latin Americans. These elements are crucial and relate to language, culture, territory, class, ethnicity, race, country, religion,good and evil, world, environment, life, work, values, family, gender and finitude, among others. Third, I propose a questioning attitude and the need to think and act in a kind of plural complexity. I use the term plural in order to articulate our differences and diversity. This notion sets the foundation for what kind of Latin American curriculum we would be able to build on, according to this analysis and perspective.
Title/Título: Latin American CurriculumToday.
Affiliation/Afiliación: Investigadora en Teoría y Educación en el Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación (IISUE) en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Keynote Address:
For this conference, I discuss the notion of the now, or present moment, in Latin American Curriculum Studies, by way of subjectivity and identity. The paper to be presented is organized in three parts. First, I analyze and stress the concept of “present moment”, given its complexity in terms of the timing and meaning of our writing and reading. Second, I point out some aspects about the structure of “present moment”, where different elements define the recent past in regard to our subjectivities and identities as Latin Americans. These elements are crucial and relate to language, culture, territory, class, ethnicity, race, country, religion,good and evil, world, environment, life, work, values, family, gender and finitude, among others. Third, I propose a questioning attitude and the need to think and act in a kind of plural complexity. I use the term plural in order to articulate our differences and diversity. This notion sets the foundation for what kind of Latin American curriculum we would be able to build on, according to this analysis and perspective.