Reflections about the relation betwen education and culture in the latinamerican school

Abstract

As culture it the environment which gives sense human life, school may be a institution closely connected
with him. The historical conditions of constitution of Latin American societies, makes him propensive to
reproduce, acritical, education models of thinking from other cultural environments, considering which students
will be apathetic because they feel the sensation that they are studying useless things. This article suggest the need
to take in account cultural dimension in the educational system; that means to study “the own”. At the same time,
is necessary to recognize the diversity of world’s vision contains in the school in societies organized in different
social classes, with different needs and interests, sometimes antagonists, which transform him in space in dispute.