Rethinking the university humanist formation of the global north from a global southern perspective

Abstract

This article is part of the doctoral thesis that focused on a critical analysis of university education in northern Mexico. The criticism focuses on the type of training that is said to be promoted from a humanist perspective based on a philosophical basis that announces the educational model that, far from making the formation binding on the social environment, a commercialization of university education is being promoted. The case study of the Bachelor of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Baja California is taken up again. The theoretical support is from the epistemologies of the South and a methodology focused on grounded theory was used. One of the main findings is that both students and teachers identify a commodification of education based on the philosophical and pedagogical support of the Public University. In conclusion, it is identified that in university education it is essential to generate a sensitive experience and disciplinary differentiation that makes graduates binding on the social environment, political, cultural and economic in which they develop as critical future professionals who influence, from their discipline, in society.