ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION. THE HUMAN BEING AS A PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION AND AS A PART OF THE LIVING WORLD. ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF DARWIN’S WORK AND ON HIS 200TH BIRTHDAY

Abstract

The idea of man has been built in the western world from the limits described looking at both sides of the barrier, proposing two different narratives: one for nature and another for culture. One for the human species and another one for the rest of the living species. Authors state, taking their arguments from the Theory of Evolution and some of its more direct implications, that this great difference is not actually real and, furthermore, there are arguments drawn from Darwin’s Theory that build bridges between human nature and the rest of nature. These arguments are the foundation of Anthropology of Education and the understanding of the processes of construction of life as the centre of intelligibility of the human species and the educational processes. Put in other words, these arguments are the ground on which to build an Anthropology that looks at the human species as part of the world of life, without any need to differentiate between human beings and the rest of live forms.