Intercultural educational events and discourses of Indigenous teachers' professionalization (1991-2010)

Abstract

The article describes events, research and proposals related to intercultural education discourses in Colombia, contextualized at the end of the 20th century, where the consolidation of a nation of superiority of mainly white groups was aimed, and the beginning of the 21st century with the emergence of pluricultural political and educational proposals, where the cultural diversity of the country is recognized.

It is contextualized from subjects and institutions of education, mainly higher education, with educational initiatives in the recognition of indigenous cultural diversity, proposals with intercultural characteristics, among these: Intercultural Bilingual Education Program of the CRIC, Intercultural Indigenous Autonomous University, with their own educational proposals. The research objective is to describe and analyze the conditions of possibility for the emergence of intercultural education discourses between 1991 and 2010. Methodologically, it is located in archival description from the genealogical-archeological approach; discursive records of documentary sources are reviewed.

Among the results, there is evidence of social and indigenous movements and policies at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, events that led to culturally diverse education initiatives, participation of social organizations, emergence of their own education with intercultural characteristics, professionalization of culturally diverse teachers. As one of the conclusions, it is found that despite the inequality in access to higher education, educational proposals are generated that allow the integration of the ethnic population, specifically the interest of regional universities in bringing educational programs closer to rural ethnic communities.