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This paper addresses two fundamental aspects in the context of contemporary educational thinking. On the one hand, it enters into characterizing the educational from the Latin American social, theoretical and historic context, describing the configurative components of the process from Freire, Maturana and Ilich, and on the other hand, developing a synthesis of the border proposals of the sciences of cognition through a comprehensive and active educational orientation base located in the context of the ecology of knowledge and the unique cultural mosaic of South America. The methodological basis is fundamentally hermeneutic and epistemological-political. The result is a contribution to the educational discussion revealing, the processes of educational transformation, both at a personal and community level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I present a research paper on "Image of human being or concept of man in the Mapuche culture". The methodological design combined participant observation techniques in socio-cultural activities carried out by organizations, such as active participation in xawvn (community meetings and leaders), nvxam (dialogue) with young people and the elderly. In this sense it is an exploratory and eminently qualitative research, which is presented as an essay and has the purpose of creating bridges for dialogue between cultures, specifically for the dialogue of knowledge about different human conceptions and in this way to know wealth of the reasons that Mapuche thinking gives reason for his life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]