Critical Pedagogy of the 21st Century or, how «to learn to unlearn

Abstract

The article polemically considers the main aspects of the higher education crisis on a global scale and juxtaposes the epistemic, axiological, existential and other bases of the Western and non-Western ways of its overcoming. Specific attention is paid to the comparison between the «Davos culture» phenomenon in higher education and the really existing Intercultural University of the Indigenous peoples and nations of Ecuador, built on alternative principles.