Teres Salinas

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 Gamero
Executive Director of the Regional Center of Expertise on Education for the Sustainable
Development , RCE Lima-Callao
University Ricardo Palma, Lima.

AGENDA
What 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?
Teresa Salinas Gamero

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

We forget the essence of
being and the sense of life

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?

• 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?

The game of the world

Order
Disorder
Interactions
Organization
Disorganization

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

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

No linear, complex
transdisciplinary education

Project Alfa USo+I: Improvement Plan: Ayni Proposal
Fuente: Teresa Salinas, elaboración propia.
Tradicional
Knowledge

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 knowledge
PENUMA
• 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

Guidelines for competences
World view
(motivation)
know
(Technoscience
and knowledge)
No linear, complex
and
transdisciplinary
education
BEING
(Attitudinal)
Do
(Ability)

The Individual Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis of Society

The Metamorphosis
of the Relationship
with Nature

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.

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.

Nature raises
human
Human raises
nature
Andean Culture is based on love,
upbringing, reciprocity and respect of
ecosystems

RECIPROCITYSOLIDARITY
LOVE
Without Justice there is NO
Sustainability

• Gracias
• teal33@yahoo.es

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