DIFFERENCES, INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION AND DECOLONIALITY

insurgent topics

Abstract

We are living in a crisis, which affects different dimensions of social and political life. In the education field, conservative positions are confronted with an intense movement, both of social mobilization and academic production, of recognition of different socio-cultural groups, inferior and submitted in our society. This work is situated in this perspective and is guided from decolonial perspective and its inter-relation with critical intercultural education. Besides
approaching this issue, it presents other ones that have acquired special relevance nowadays. That means, equality-difference, intersectionality, empowerment, whiteness, and knowledge ecology. It reflects about each one of these issues and indicates their implications for the educational process development. In the final considerations – insurging… - it points out some challenges to move in this direction in theoretical and practical ways. It defends that this perspective requires deconstructing a standard conception of the school format and curricula, questioning the coloniality present in school cultures, recognizing countless knowledges and insurgent practices carried out by teachers in daily school life, and placing in the middle of our searches to construct a critical intercultural and decolonial education, the submitted and inferior social groups in our society.