Régimen Multicultural y Educación Propia en el Ecuador

The chapter Multicultural Regime and Self-Education in Ecuador belongs to Sebastián Granda. In it, the author shows us the effects of the of the implementation of the multicultural regime in Ecuador, based on the study of the the study of the educational experience of the Indigenous School System of Cotopaxi. Granda argues that the neo-liberal and post-neoliberal state model neoliberal and post-neoliberal state model was harmful for the indigenous communities' own the indigenous communities, since it ended up co-opting these initiatives, alienating the control of the communities, generating their consequent depoliticization and depoliticization. the communities, generating their consequent depoliticization and destroying the symbolic value that such initiatives the symbolic value that such initiatives already had. Granda shows us an analysis of these results based on the characterization of the regime of management, control and administration of cultural and linguistic diversity in two clearly differentiated moments in the country's state policy, as follows, The first one is the development of a permitted indigenous education model, and the second one is the imposition of a white-mestizo educational project, paradoxically, the latter in the context of greater recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples. recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples.