Abstract
The chapter Interculturality and university. Cuando lo distinto (no) cabe en el mismo molde, written by María Verónica Di Caudo is part of the author's doctoral research and proposes theoretical and critical reflections on interculturality in higher education, enriched by the narratives of young students. In the chapter, María Verónica mentions the presence in Ecuador of indigenous students in universities, who have led her to question the processes of inclusion in higher education institutions. The author makes a historical review of strategies and policies that led indigenous people from being invisibilized to being read from modernity patterns. María Verónica Di Caudo describes the quota policy implemented as a policy of affirmative actions aimed at allowing those who had difficulties to access higher education to do so, without adapting the curriculum according to their special needs. The author presents from the stories of some students the subsequent difficulties they had to develop the process that required uprooting, adaptation, leaving aside ancestral and cultural knowledge and even their own language. Showing how this type of policies respond to globalization processes, knowledge economy, Western civilized knowledge and the relationship between economy and education.
Translated title of the contribution | Interculturality and University. When the Different (NOT) Fits in the Same Mold |
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Original language | Spanish (Ecuador) |
Title of host publication | INTERCULTURALIDAD Y EDUCACIÓN DESDE EL SUR. CONTEXTOS, EXPERIENCIAS Y VOCES |
Publisher | Editorial Universitaria Abya-Yala |
Pages | 93-130 |
Number of pages | 38 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-9978-10-235-0 |
State | Published - 1 Jun 2016 |
CACES Knowledge Areas
- 413A Social and Cultural Studies