Colombia will host the first Latin American Education Congress scheduled for March 17-18 to analyze the educational policies of the region, organizers said Friday.

Luz Saavedra, a coordinator of the meeting dubbed "Educators: Great Social Transformers," said the participants will examine the educational policies of Latin America so as to make comparisons with those of Colombia, and to debate free, popular and submissive pedagogy.

"We want to know if the changes introduced by the school organization, the institutional projects, the assessment of performance and the lack of training, among other aspects, do good or bad to education," Saavedra said.

The educators will also elaborate on their positions on a free trade agreement among Colombia, Peru and Ecuador and the United States.

So far, seven rounds of free trade negotiations have been launched between the three Andean countries and the United States.

Source: Xinhua