Abstract

TEJERINA VARGAS, Verónica Stella. The education role and intercultural practices as instrument of resistance and claim for the social construction The indigenous issue: between "who we are" and that "we could not be". Rev. de Inv. Educ. [online]. 2014, vol.7, n.1, pp.157-177. ISSN 1997-4043.

The contents of this paper is organized into two parts: the first will address the Indian / indigenous and its interpretation in the Latin American context, taking the cases of Bolivia and Mexico, specifying the characteristics of the colonial heritage, development of internal colonialism, the influence liberalism / positivism in the conception of "otherness." This first part will identify the internalization of negative things Indian / indigenous. The second part of the work will be targeted mainly to the role played by education (influence of positivism) from the states of Mexico and Bolivia, and present educational practice and multiculturalism as instruments of social emancipati on. Already in the conclusions I intend to identify what "we" and what "could not be" revealing the "problem" of Indian and indigenous from our Latin American societies.

Keywords : Indian / indigenous; colonial heritage; liberalism; education; intercultural.

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