Política y pedagogía en la educación popular

Abstract

Popular education has been an incentive in repressive times in Latin America because of its foundation in the critical reading of a real environment that looks for an empowered nation of its justice process and equity. In this practice, education takes an important role due to the leadership that comes up and the different leaders who are able to recognize their own realities through their desires of creating strategies that leads the emancipation, looking for breaking the contractual practices towards the oppression. In the following essay, it is pretended to give an answer to , what is the relationship between politics and pedagogy in the popular education taking into account, the human recognition and his unceasing Pursuit of Happiness as an individual coming from virtues and (Aristotle) or communal (Moro) being the state what improves the human being. The human being is mean to be a political animal demands to be educated, on this sense, education and in particular, popular education contributes to critical awareness allowing the political and civic rights recognition that lead the political participation. On this line is developed the document, giving an approaching to the popular education history focused on Colombia. Popular education remains as an alternative in Latin America in the pursuit of emancipation, since it is reinvented from its own practices, allowing the context recognition and the search for alternatives for change.