Superior Thinking and Territorial Development

Abstract

This observation aims to explain the fundamental role of the superior thought, in the formulation and practice of local territorial development models, to contribute substantively in the transformation of adverse socioeconomic conditions now living indigenous and rural communities in many countries, such as Guatemala, a situation that can be summarized in high poverty and malnutrition. But superior thought, must be the competence of the population with local belonging, because if and only if this condition exists, it will validate and provide viability to territorial development. To achieve superior thought skills in local areas, there is a need to overcome obstacles in the university model, which today are familiar to seeing and thinking; models that have the characteristics of colonial heritage, dysfunction with the economic, cultural, social and political problems of society and the denial of ancestral knowledge.