ABSTRACT:
Boaventura Sousa Santos' wide intellectual production has influenced various areas of expertise. It has also moved diverse social actors into promoting initiatives that aim social transformation and democratic building. We consider that his contributions are especially relevant to debate on educational issues in society nowadays. This article aims at identifying aspects which mobilize - the entitled "force-ideas"- by Boaventura Sousa Santos' thinking in order to deepen at a critical and intercultural perspective, both theoretically and practically. This work is built with three complementary parts. First, it contains a reflection on the expression "force-ideas". Second, it brings the main tendencies of today's intercultural education in Latin America. And finally it presents some "force-ideas" that allow us to deepen and enlarge the discussion about intercultural education in a critical perspective.
Keywords:
Intercultural education; Boaventura Sousa Santos; "Force-ideas"; Equality/difference; Knowledge Ecology.