The formative and transformer value of cooperation. An experience of educational practices in Guatemala

Abstract

The axis of this article is the study of the formative value of a practical experience of educational cooperation in Guatemala as an expression of a commitment pedagogy to human rights: learn to cooperate and cooperate to transform.
In this work raises the responsibility of the universities in a global world and reflects on the need to insert the ethical dimension in the plans of an initial training. The exercise of university autonomy, and the emphasis on the development of competencies, which are associated with the acquisition of more significant, open and flexible content, favors the deployment of educational projects that adopt more holistic and multidimensional looks, more multidisciplinary and transversal that, in the line of the input on education for development, on cooperation and learning-service, promoting the right to education and the experience of values that are the foundation and purpose of an inclusive citizenship