The systematization of experiences in colombia (1979-2010): what experiences does it systematize? how does it produce knowledge?

Abstract

This research paper offers a critical analysis about schooling strategies and procedures of systematization of experiences, one of the most commonly quoted social intervention proposals in Latin American popular education today. The revision of reports of systematization written or managed by people who promote it in Colombia pursued the objective of clarifying what has been understood by "experience", which experience has been systematized and the effects this practice has had in marginalized population whom has been guided from last decades of twenty century. Furthermore, the interest of the researcher is depicting the features this social intervention comprises in terms of transnational government, modern subject ideal and the epistemological difficulties of trying to recover and to produce alternative knowledge from enlightened thoughts. In this sense, and since this research opens a problematization field of social interventions that proceed from both the academy and the Others, the author highlights the need of contributing to the modernity/ coloniality debate by inquiring this and similar practices.