The community under the forms of the will to know

Abstract

The purpose of the research project is to analyze the epistemic and ethical references of the critical pedagogical approach present in two community organizations geographically located in southwestern Colombia. Along with the qualitative theoretical approach, the instrumental case study method will allow greater proximity to topics such as epistemics, ethics and pedagogy in the community context. The theoretical framework has as a reference existential critical social theory, emphasizing Tönnies, Foucault, Jorge Larrosa. One of the findings of the research was to understand the will to know, as words woven from the reticular in the world of daily life that ethically enable the construction of scenarios of collective knowledge and the survival of community links of cooperation and solidarity.