Politic(ally incorrect): education and interculturality in Chile and Latin America

Abstract

This essay seeks to delve into the relationship that exists between politics, education, and intercultural relations in Latin America, with the aim of pointing out some bases for an educational project that tends to subvert the continent's structural dependency relations. For this, the need for an education that recognizes the historical differences and the specificity of cultural oppressions in Our America is proposed, arguing with part of the current research on intercultural education in Chile, which tends to reproduce the universalist patterns of the modern episteme. colonial. From there, the importance of decolonizing intercultural education in order to politicize it is defended, within the framework of a Bolivarian project for the integration of Latin American peoples.