A INTERCULTURALIDAD EN LA EDUCACIÓN ESCOLAR INDÍGENA

Resumen

The term intercultural refers to the recognition, respect and balanced relations of exchanges between different peoples and cultures. In Europe it involves issues related to immigrants and, in Latin America, there are records of its use by the Austrian religious, Ivan Ilitch, in the 1960s, at the foundation of the Intercultural Documentation Center (CIDOC) in Mexico, which, among the activities developed, carried out the formation of American missionaries in Spanish. Later, in the 1980s, UNESCO disseminated the term through its insertion in the educational policy aimed at indigenous peoples. In this text, we make a historical resumption of the term and an analysis of intercultural educational policies initiated with the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, which boosted reforms for indigenous school education in the 1990s. This is a bibliographic and documentary study in which we discuss the interculturality perspective in guidelines and references that enable indigenous peoples to develop their own pedagogical projects, geared to their sociocultural and linguistic realities, as well as to their sustainability needs.