Abstract

TOVAR ZERPA, Frank  and  ROJAS LOPEZ, José. Knowledge dialogue, ecologic indigenous wisdom and rural development. Rev. de Inv. Educ. [online]. 2012, vol.5, n.3, pp.115-132. ISSN 1997-4043.

Interculturality has been favoured within the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as an essential precept of recognition of the otherness concept. For this reason, it is necessary to know and valué ecological knowledge and linguistic, social, territorial and cultural specificities that, for ages, indigenous cultures have developed in order to establish a balanced and long-lasting relatíonship with nature. This arricie aims at contributing to this topic with the presentadon of a methodological design for an ecological wisdom intercultural assessment, referred to the community rural development project Pemón Taurepán of the Venezuelan Guyana.

Keywords : intercultural dialogue; native wisdom; Pemón Taurepán culture..

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