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Blending Higher Education and Traditional Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Students’ and Professional perspectives on graduate competences for a sustainable development

Iquitos-2014

Mg. Teresa Salinas GameroExecutive Director of the Regional Center of Expertise on Education for the Sustainable

Development , RCE Lima-Callao University Ricardo Palma, Lima.

AGENDAWhat implies to reflect on postgraduate competences? • Think on vital matters for the appropriatness of

this process.¿Who are we and where do we go?¿How do we think of the world?¿What do we need?

• A complex no linear education that articulates the scientific disciplines,the other cultures and the traditional knowledge, everything in a transdisciplinary dialogue between knowledge.

• Guidelines for the competences

• Which are the competences that an education for sustainable development should have?

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• Requires to reflect on vital matters for the appropriateness of this process.

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We forget the essence of being and the sense of life

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THE MAN AND HIS MYSTERIES

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What are we and where do we go?

• How is our perception of the world?• How is formed the life storyline?• The form in which we build and practice the

knowledge has contributed to improve the quality of life in the planet?

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• Which are the results of the ideal of progress that raised modernity?

• What do we understand as sustainable development?

• What philosophical, epistemological, didactic and educational framework could be used to provide quality and appropriateness in Education and to form citizens for a sustainable development?

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Who are we?Edgar Morin

Brain System

Genetic System

Ecosystem

Praxis

Cultural Society

The game of the world

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Order Disorder

Interactions

OrganizationDisorganization

How do we think of the world?

DOMINANT THINKING

• Fragment vision of the world• Absolute truth • Use of a lineal language in the

description of the world • Cognitive blindness to practice

reductionism

COMPLEXITY THINKING

• Complex vision of the world• Uncertainty • Use of a circular language in the

description of the world. • Teach in the perception of

complexity

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Consequences • The development models assumed for the States have brought the

several crises that face humanity (financial, environmental, energetic, feed, moral, politic, of human cohabitation, among others).

• From the epistemological framework the cartesian thinking separated the natural sciences and the social sciences, not being aware of the systemic totality, the internal interrelation between them and the complexity, therefore, among other issues, the social environmental phenomenon.

• An unsustainable world was built, marked by the excessive exercise of power, the predation of natural resources and the consumerism.

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What do we need?• Take conscience of the pathology of the

fragmented and reduced thinking.• Change the instrumental rationality means – aims

for a new rationality ethical – humanist.• An ethical position facing life in all its

demonstrations.• A new form to build knowledge. The extension of

the horizons of Education for sustainability. Teresa Salinas Gamero

• Perception of the world of networks in net, no linear, distributed with a capacity of self-organization.

• Deal with the requirements of common wellbeing and self – education.

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• Change the structure of Superior Education based on copy, hominization, fragmentation, bureaucracy and past bibliography.

• Include spiritual regenerative knowledge of human condition.

• Promote the dialogue of knowledge.

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No linear, complex transdisciplinary education

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Project Alfa USo+I: Improvement Plan: Ayni Proposal

Fuente: Teresa Salinas, elaboración propia.

Tradicional Knowledge

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Transdisciplinarity• The effort to learn from another perspective, with

the strategy of inquiry scientific disciplines, no scientific knowledge, other cultures and civilizations and traditional knowledge, everything on a transdisciplinary dialogue between knowledge, which requires new concept concepts, models, reconceptualization and new knowledge that could not be obtained from a linear perspective.

The seven knowledge necessary to educate the future

• The blindness of knowledge• The principles of a pertinent knowledge• Teach human condition • Teach wordly identity • Face uncertainty • Teach comprehension • Ethics of human kind

Edgar Morin

The ancestral knowledgePENUMA

• It is essential that the current unilateral relationship between the modern scientific knowledge and the local ecological knowledge, in which the first takes the place of the second, is replaced by other defined by mutual respect and equalization … There is probably no university in the world in which teaching and research are completely or predominantly based in this integrated knowledge.” (pp. 91-93)

Future studies

Social Projection

Transforming Functions of the

University

Intercultural Training

Research

Knowledge and wisdom management

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Guidelines for competences

World view(motivation)

know(Technoscience and knowledge)

No linear, complex and

transdisciplinary education

BEING(Attitudinal)

Do(Ability)

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The Individual Metamorphosis

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The Metamorphosis of Society

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The Metamorphosis of the Relationship

with Nature

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SCIENCE WITH CONSCIENCE

• A science with ecological conscience, committed with the relation individual/society/nature (energy creativity, natural resources management for local/global development, city, habitat and revitalization of rural world).

• A science that interacts and nourishes the interaction between knowledge and good living of native people.

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Experience of RCE Lima –Callao and University Ricardo Palma

• The Certification Program on Biodiversity and Intercultural Knowledge offers a space of reflection, debate and academic training, based on experience and existing documentation of San Martín region in order to stimulate the systematization and diffusion of ancestral practices and knowledge within a framework of knowledge dialogue for the benefit of all Amazonian Andean Region.

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Compartir el buen vivir

Nature raises human

Human raises nature

Andean Culture is based on love, upbringing, reciprocity and respect of

ecosystems

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RECIPROCITYSOLIDARITY

LOVE

Without Justice there is NO Sustainability

• Gracias• teal33@yahoo.es