Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Gabriela Mistral’s pedagogical writings have not received the worldwide attention that her poetry has obtained. Lately, however, anthologies on her political, educational, and spiritual views have been published, opening opportunities to delve into the different dimensions of her prolific work. This research, I am here introducing, examines one of these dimensions: the educational one. Drawing on Enrique Dussel’s The Pedagogics of Liberation, it examines Mistral’s pedagogic and epistemological projects. By scrutinizing closely into a selection of her pedagogical production, this paper explores Mistral’s anti-hegemonic views, which depart from the notions of space and time predominant in the Western-matrix of power, and consequently offer valid ontological and epistemological ways to critically approach current educational times. The paper focuses on the concepts of mythology, inferiority, and massiveness to delineate a map of Mistralian Pedagogy that is singular and pertinent for understanding current educational issues.