Institutional self-assessment in university centers as a practice for de-colonization

Abstract

Institutional self-evaluation is developed within university centers as an exercise in critical-reflective review "... with the responsible participation of all actors in the university community and its environment." (PEI-7 Informative Bulletin) with the purpose of being re-known, becoming a process in permanent re-construction. The intention of this analytical-reflective essay is to propose the thesis of institutional self-evaluation as a practice to move towards de-colonization, for this I start from a series of questions where through the responses confronted with theory and hermeneutical-reflexive analysis generate theorization. Among the conclusions, the following stand out: the Institutional Self-Assessment from the decolonizing thought considers the university as a pluriverse space, integrating the thoughts, knowledge, actions and feelings of the native peoples, Afro- descendants, other communities and Western knowledge, with a vision of Our American integration, and worldwide, using the systematization of experiences and transformative participatory action research as the method that allows to continually rethink, create and re-create university functions that leads to a “… process of deconstruction of being and liberation to modify subjectivities colonizers. ”(Da Corte, 2020)