Epistemic, ontological and political decolonization in university education

Abstract

Western modern thought represented, for the peoples of the south, a cultural, political, and social hegemony, the product of the installation of instrumental rationality in our societies, over and above the different millenary knowledge and expressions of proven fertility, invisibilizing,marginalizing and excluding the different cognitive perspectives of non-Western cultures. From this framework of ideas, this research, aims to analyze the decolonization of knowledge, being
and power to consolidate a transformative and emancipatory project from university education. The methodological approach is inserted in the qualitative tradition, specifically from the philosophical hermeneutics. The most representative conclusion of the same one, takes us to recognize the vital thing that it implies for the towns of the south, to develop a decolonial university educational thought as ethical, political, ecological project from the interculturality other.