The approaches of educational thought, a look from a historical reading of the world to Latin America

Abstract

Speaking of education is to walk through the history of thought and the world of ideas, countless men have embodied the concept of education, among them, Aristotle defines “Education is to address the feelings of pleasure and pain to the ethical”; (Bolívar, 1989:46), “education as a social and historical process represents a set of phenomena, processes, practices, that influence the development the subject acting and thinking in the context of certain reality”. On this basis, the proposal seeks to show that, thought and education go hand in hand, showing in the development of the dissertation a number of approaches from different parts of the world to rediscover the roots of Latin American educational thought since its most sensitive and libertarian ideas of the world, hence, the purpose of this working paper is to present the theoretical contributions of educational thought from its roots to converge in Latin America.