Education in multicultural contexts: Ethnoeducational and intercultural experience with an indigenous population from the Resguardo Embera Chami (Mistrato, Risaralda, Colombia)

Abstract

This educative investigation responds to the need of studying intercultural education phenomenon according to the pluri-ethnicity and multiculturalism of the different territories and communities in Colombia according to a three-category framework: indigenous education, ethno- education and intercultural education. As a systematization of pedagogic experiences, it aims at describing, critically analyzing and understanding the communicative and sociocultural dynamics that occur during the educative and socio-pedagogical processes in the indigenous communities Embera Chami? in the department of Risaralda (Colombia). The qualitative research has been based on the methodological strategy of systematizing experiences starting from the general reconstruction of the process and the interpretative and critical analysis of the participants’ graduate papers (as evidences) of the significant learning by using a matrix for systematization of socio- pedagogical experiences in intercultural contexts: ETINDICU (Ethno-education- indigenous-intercultural).

The main conclusions and recommendations focus on: a) the design and development of public policy in education, that takes into account the characteristics of Indigenous education;
b) proposing and advancing qualitative socio-pedagogical research from the systematization of contextual and territorial experiences (Matrix ETINDICU); and c) training and increasing in participants the professionalization of the Degree of Ethno- education and Community.