Inclusion and coexistence to prevent racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance: one of the main challenges of our educational system

Abstract

It is obvious that the episodes of intolerance, hatred and violence that the planet suffers also shake the school, which is unable to provide the solutions that society demands, - a logical outcome if one thinks about the school's own difficulties at the time of managing those conflicts when they are presented within its boundaries -. Breaking this cycle would imply that society assumed the need to preserve and protect the educational system; only a space of protected coexistence that which every school community should aspire to become, can face the challenge of forming citizens that are capable of finding solutions to the problems of coexistence. The school spaces of coexistence must assume the principle of educational inclusion, interculturality and the manifest and determined struggle against any form of intolerance as its main objective and hallmark; they must preserve the equity of the educational process by avoiding segregation, labeling and stigmatization; they must assume a decidedly humanist, critical and democratic perspective when it comes to exploring and accessing knowledge; In short, they must be open to reality and its analysis, but protected from its undesirable consequences.

Keywords

• educación inclusiva
• educación intercultural
• racismo
• xenofobia
• convivencia pacífica