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This Wednesday, February 5, the Cartagena Piensa program, from the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, together with the VI Conference "An education for the 21st century" will reflect on the current complexity of education, with the documentary and teaching specialist Ana María Valencia Herrera.

Under the title of "The smooth commodification of education. Machines and gurus" the debate talk will be held at the Higher Technical School of Architecture and Building (ETSAE) at 7:00 p.m.

The act will be presented by Pedro Cárdenas Fernández, member of the Organizing Committee of the VI Conference "An education for the 21st century".

Ana María Valencia Herrera, documentary filmmaker at the Institute of Political Studies for Latin America.

In his more than thirty years of teaching he has alternated this work with studies and works in various fields, from the promotion of reading to the recovery of historical memory.

His main concern is the establishment of rigor in the information, and the transmission of it.

Especially interested in teaching social history and an alternative curriculum to the official, she is a practicing high school teacher, and co-editor of the Gazette of Radical Pedagogy.

Concerned about the growing threat to public education and access to knowledge in general, she has written articles, translations and reports in various media, and is preparing an explanatory guide on commodification.

According to Valencia Herrera: "The relentless progress of the transformation of education into one more commodity, forces to enter a camouflage process that makes the excesses and the incoherence that this change is producing in the whole educational environment tolerable. The more aggressive and The process becomes lucrative, the more accelerated the use of deliberately ambiguous and kind language; behind the appearance of innovation and the dictatorship of the future, lies the greatest setback that public education has experienced in its history. out there are the biased use of technology, and the sympathy canned on youtube financed by banks; all at a time when it is intended to impose on society a distorted image of education that annuls the reality of it and its lack of means, and in which knowledge is more inaccessible and expensive than ever. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena