ART AS “DE-COLONIAL” PEDAGOGY, A COMMITMENT TO COLONIAL “RE-EXISTENCE”.

Abstract

The writing is a reflection about the art as a pedagogy for a new identity in Latin American, it shows how Latin American towns were subordinated, humiliated ,subdued, how their history, their life styles, their art and all their knowledge were  trampled, erased and almost forgotten  by the Colonists ‘history. Besides, the text dialogues about the creation of hierarchical groups as predominance power over the settled cultures in America. It shows the modernity project imposed by the colonists and how the indigenous people, especially from Colombia have shown their struggles from a “de-colonial” pedagogy by means of social practices, the art, the music, and the literature. They have not silenced their voices in an unequal society. The writing also presents three samples of “ de-colonial “practices  carried out by three Colombian communities which have been important to know about their history, their ways of resistance and how they have survived  in a distant modernity. Their “de-colonial” practices have been a relief to survive in an ephemeral capitalist and elitist society. Finally, the text invites the reader to think about how education should transform the society, human beings, and be an instrument to value others, our roots, traditions, and especially to value what we are as Latin Americans.