Axiological keys and educational challenges in Latin America

Abstract

This article explores the values present in the educational policies of the respective Ibero-American countries. It is evident that the more or less explicit axiological framework of these policies has a significant impact on people and societies. In the heterogeneous and diversified Ibero-American region, the question arises about what values are needed to promote an education that really encourages the construction of a better, fairer, freer and more livable world. The study reviews the web portals of the various Ibero-American Ministries of Education. The methodology used to analyze these pages or other documents located on the internet, is the same as in the content analysis. Through this way we arrive at certain "value indicators" that offer axiological keys and allow to verify the expected differences, which, in some cases, constitute or answer to polarized discrepancies which concur with the corresponding national characteristics in the political, social, cultural and economic.