Presentation

From her proposal on the relationship between pedagogy and (de)coloniality, Catherine Wash, discusses how a broad, fair and committed view is constructed, allowing to bring together different approaches from very different actors, where the voices of activist academics join the voices of activists committed to the production of thoughts. Contrary to what is commonly understood as the pedagogical field, Walsh proposes a reading from the outcry, from the fracture, from the urgency of this day and age, demonstrating that the exercise of thinking and doing Another pedagogy involves restoring the link between pedagogy and resistance, pedagogy and territory, pedagogy and defence of life, in short, between pedagogy and (re)existence.

Bio note

Catherine Walsh is an intellectual-militant involved for many years in the processes and struggles of justice and social transformation, first in the United States (where she worked closely with Paulo Freire) and, during the last 20 years, in Abya Yala (Latin America) and Ecuador, where she has for long been involved with the processes of indigenous and Afro-descendant movements.
Ph.D. in Education, Sociolinguistics and Cognitive Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amhers, Walsh is currently Coordinator of the Ph.D. programme in Latin American Cultural Studies and of the Chair of Afro-Andean Studies, and full professor at Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar in the fields of Social and Global Studies and Humanities. She has been a guest lecturer at numerous institutions of higher education including: Duke University, University of Binghamton and University of Tennessee in the United States, York University in Canada, Pontificia Universidad Católica in Rio de Janeiro, Universidad de Guadalajara and Universidad Pedagógica Nacional in Mexico, Universidad of San Buenaventura in Cali, University of Antioquia, University of Cauca, and Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, Universidad Mayor San Simón in Bolivia, among others.
Published numerous books and articles and recently edited two volumes on Decolonial Pedagogies

Activity under the Doctoral Programmes Human Rights in Contemporary Societies and Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship.