Educación Popular en el Corazón del Pueblo ¿o el pueblo en el corazón de la Educación Popular?

There is great complexity when approaching the educational practice of Popular Education. I say complex since, in our current state of affairs, diverse interpretations and applications have been drawn in regard to this phenomenon which has been established, in some cases, as an immutability of its praxis and, in others, as an atomization of itself generating a kind of “fief”, in relation to its critical perspective and emancipatory vision outside the institutional framework. As a result, a gap is generated between these educational practices and the people, placing the latter in a lower hierarchical level, deteriorating the principle of horizontality and equality of those who participate in these instances by resorting to approaches based on a positivist tradition. Therefore, would it be worth asking if Popular Education is currently splitting from the hegemonic logics of positivism? In addition, what is it that makes Popular Education a critical practice representative of the assumption of equality and recognition