Peruvian University: Paradoxes, paradigms and contrasting models

Abstract

This paper presents a synopsis of the Peruvian University historical process besieged by the
insistent attempts to reform it. An always-colonial university and with a marked North-
Eurocentrism, whose dynamics have passed between paradoxes and paradigms and
between the competition of different models that are confronted today with the mandate of
licensing and accreditation as new horizons. The Mariateguist perspective of critical and
colonized knowledge rooted in the University, subject to criticism, as well as the university
academic and union experience itself are the main sources of reflection in the face of a new
situation of university reform