Educational systems for a diverse, free and intercultural society

Abstract

Throughout history, educational models have been imposed on the different modes of production; at one time, they have been consistent with the needs, demands and interests of the dominant classes, they have authoritarian roots, be it feudalism, socialism or capita- lism. In the last fifty years, although indigenism and interculturality have been part of government rhetoric, political discourse and academic practice, it is paradoxical that they are promoted by the government, despite the capitalist-neoliberal model, which has generated poverty, exclusion, marginalization, elitism and racism. In this context, for communities that were colonized, intercultural education has been a counter-hegemonic instrument of stru- ggle to question the imposition of colonialist cultural patterns. Communities have remained in resistance for centuries, through daily and adaptive teaching practices, they constitute an alternative to change the system from below, from within and from awareness to transform, through education, the system that has subjugated them for more than 500 years.