School space-time categories and Andean: a study of the Northeast Argentina Schools

Abstract

The article approaches the time/space categories, in their structuring dimension, to try their denaturation, that is, think about them and accept that they are historical-cultural constructions. Therefore, a comparison between the categories of western modernity and those of Andean culture is suggested, following the guidelines of diatopic hermeneutics, as Josef Esterman's statement. In addition, the contributions of the decolonial turn that call into question pure abstraction and oppose it to the thought rooted in the deep Abya Yala (America for the Westerners) are taken, without pretensions of universality to understand what happens in schools in inhospitable places of northwestern Argentina, on the border with Chile and Bolivia, based on lessons learned through research projects, in which members of communities and schools participated, with the intention of analyzing problems and underpin intercultural pedagogical practices.