Garcés, Fernando (Coord.) (2023). Educación superior y pueblos indígenas en el contexto del Covid-19. (1ª Ed.) Universidad Politécnica Salesiana/Abya Yala

Abstract

This is a review of the book Educación superior y pueblos indígenas en el contexto del Covid-19, written by Fernando Garcés and published by the Salesian Polytechnic University, Editorial Abya Yala. This work represents a timely x-ray of the forced and anarchic migration from the face-to-face educational system to a completely virtual one and of the emerging strategies used by indigenous students (and their families), teachers, and higher education institutions to avoid completely interrupting the training process due to the socio-sanitary crisis. Moreover, the text as a whole is a novel contribution that will serve as a reference framework for many other investigations on the subject, based on the idea that the ravages generated by the socio-sanitary crisis are just in the evaluation process by the international scientific community. In particular, Latin American social scientists have the ominous task of reflecting on the world and its inequalities before and after COVID-19, also making visible some perverse strategies that capitalism has used in the framework of the crisis to generate economic returns at the expense of pain of people.