Original knowledge in the curricular program of alternative education institutions. The case of the Communal University Center of Valles Centrales-UACO

Abstract

In view of the problems that the official Mexican educational system suffers in general, but particularly at the higher level, this essay proposes that the Centro Universitario Comunal de Valles Centrales de Oaxaca (hereinafter CUC-Valles), belonging to the Universidad Autónoma Comunal de Oaxaca, in frank and overt contrast, is an institution of alternative education whose aim is to provide a higher level teaching-learning process attached to the importance of indigenous knowledge, its preservation, protection, strengthening and transmission, while promoting aspects such as the horizontality of knowledge, the eradication of exclusion, discrimination, hierarchization and individualism, as well as solidarity, sharing, collectivity and the firm conviction that another way of thinking, feeling, being and doing is possible. In this sense, after working with a critical perspective, underpinned by theoretical-reflexive analysis and under the proposal of deconstruction and educational resignification, CUC-Valles translates into an experience that points towards an education for life.