Resumen

ARGUELLO PARRA, Andrés. The education to human rights as a Pedagogy of alterity: Five theses based on the life trajectory of Rodolfo Stavenhagen. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2012, vol.34, n.138, pp.148-166. ISSN 0185-2698.

This article defines the ethical perspective about alterity in education to human rights startingfrom five theses that are based on the life trajectory of Rodolfo Stavenhagen (1932-). These thesis are developed by emphasizing the author's "biographical logic", i.e., the distinctive marks that can be find during the conformation process of his socio-political contributions as a public intellectual, analyzing these from theoretical resources that can be found in the ethical thinking of E. Levinas and other related philosophers of education. In this way the ethical perspective about alterity applied to the understanding of social actors of education in human rights can be defined by the possibility of experiential encounter with the concrete victims, the critical analysis of the situations that generate discrimination, and the ability to historical commitment towards them, dimensions that can be understood from the diverse mechanisms of biographical research.

Palabras llave : Biography; Education to human rights; Life stories; Ethics; Philosophy of education.