Mundo Amazónico (Feb 2010)
From Talking About Intercultural Education to Carrying It Out
Abstract
The article starts with a critical evaluation of the ethical and techno-pedagogical positions with which a predominant trend in Latin America supports its pedagogic proposals for intercultural education. The author, in contrast, presents some political and pedagogical principles that support an alternative educational practice that intends to reassess indigenous society through action itself and not through “preaching” (mere words). This educational practice is based on developing pedagogical activities from the social activities of the community and from asyntactic conception of culture by making explicit the indigenous contents implicit in those activities and their intercultural articulation to the conventional contents taught in school.
