Intercultural and popular education: An analysis from the narratives of University Students

Abstract

The objective of this work is to identify and to analyze the educational practices that favor the intercultural dialog in the classrooms in the majors of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Temuco, of agreement to the statements of the students Mapuche. The methodology was considered an interpretative analysis of the discourses of mapuche students, generated from a discussion group, articulated with the perspective theoretical of Paulo Freire and other Latin American intellectuals. Interpretive analysis results show that mapuche students, feel that the educational space, plays practical colonizing. It is concluded that decolonized intercultural education must necessarily sustain itself an openness to intercultural dialogue, in epistemological and theoretical terms.