Education for the Management of the World

Abstract

This article is about "education for the management of the world" that was the subject of my doctoral research published back in 2011. The main idea is the Baniwa indigenous education as a formative and transformative process which its aim is to manage the world in a way to understand it, respect it and ensure the balance of life, human existence and nature. The knowledge for the management of the world and nature enables the permanent construction of a desirable and sustainable human life and an existence based on the indigenous philosophical principle of well-being of nature and with the nature, opposing the globalized idea of knowledge for exploration, destruction and domination of nature and life. According to the indigenous thinking on the management and permanent domestication of life and the world, the power is not in the hands of human societies, but in the composition of nature, unlike Western globalized thinking, where political, historical and civilizing power are in the hands of human societies.