Objective:

This article presents theoretical findings from the research project “Experience, Ethics, and Subject in Foucaults Later Work,” which conceptualizes the theoretical-methodological categories of the philosophers last period of work. The text examines the educational dimension of contemporary neoliberalism, located in human capital as a discourse and practice that generates scenarios of formation and the constitution of subjectivities guided by international policies and practices in secondary and higher education institutions.

Originality/support:

It contributes to recent consolidated studies as a philosophy of education, employing concepts and categories from philosophy to problematize and study with effects of policies and types of economy in the field of educational sciences and pedagogy.

Method:

The methodology is closely aligned with Michel Foucaults archaeological-genealogical-ethical approach, manifested through various instruments such as thematic and analytical cards that allow for the recognition of statements and conceptual series that reorganize the ways in which the educational forms of neoliberalism have been constituted and their effects on contemporary subjects and institutions. In addition to this procedure, the essay-problematization is employed, not merely as a description of the constructed situation, but with the intention and conviction of transforming the researcher. That is, beyond seeking the documentation of the social practices produced in the discourses, it focuses on how the subject gets concerned and generates different possibilities of action.

Strategies/Data collection:

The article draws on theoretical and documentary sources from philosophy and economics, with a focus on Foucaults courses at the Collège de France during the years 1977-1979. It also delves into the analyses of American neoliberals (Schultz, Becker), theorists of human capital, who postulate the economic value of education.

Conclusions:

Contemporary education in Colombia and Latin America is co-opted by neoliberalism as a worldview. This is evidenced by the prominence of human capital as a formative scene that directs students and teachers towards the competency model, materialized in curriculum plans and institutional ventures such as innovation, entrepreneurship, and the management of individuals as architects of their own destiny becoming entrepreneurs to offer their skills in various labor markets.

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