Vestiges of colonial education in the 21st century: changes or setbacks in the educational system

Abstract

The purpose of the article was to analyze the vestiges of colonial education in the 21st century: Changes or setbacks in the educational system. Highlighting the theoretical positions of Valcárcel (1968) in the review of his book “History of Colonial Education” and Carlos Mariátegui. The research was of a bibliographic and documentary type, with a qualitative approach, at a descriptive level, it responded to the hermeneutic-interpretive method, using bibliographic and documentary review as a technique, the instrument was the bibliographic, content and textual record, this technique and processing of data was carried out on a traditional basis, proposing a narrative investigation with a retrospective approach to education from the colonial educational model imposed after the process of Spanish colonization with which great social and cultural changes occurred, taking as reference the Renaissance humanist current that already It was practiced in some European countries during the 15th and 16th centuries. While it is true, the history of education in Perú has led to a long process of evolution of content, changes in teachers and students, generating transformations within the social, political, cultural, educational and economic contexts. Thus, during the colonial period, education acquired a transcendental role in order to form citizens loyal to the crown and therefore, education had an evangelizing role, contemplating very different characteristics from those adopted in the 21st century at different levels. educational systems that were significant contributions to the educational system of their time.