Interculturality in the Processes of Professional Training in Physical Education in Colombia

Abstract

This article presents the results of a research project that was aimed to identify the presence of the culture of indigenous peoples and interculturality in the processes of professional training in Physical Education in Colombia. On a methodological level, the research was carried out in spiral thinking, seeking the mau jxijunga (comprehension) and the mau jxiju’ (interpretation), in a horizontal dialogue with the technique of content analysis to infer and uncover the latent, the not apparent, in the curricular meshes, with support of interviews with programs directors of the professional training field studied. As results, the analysis of 46 undergraduate programs and 15 postgraduate programs. Regarding the units of relevance of the research, only one descriptor was found referring to interculturality and none to the culture of the indigenous peoples. This allows to conclude that there is lack of concordance between this panorama and the Colombian regulatory framework that, according to the Political Constitution of 1991, refers to the need for a culture, a public policy and an education committed to the rescue and promotion of diversity for a society that recognizes itself as multicultural and multiethnic.