The Challenges of Intercultural Education in the 21st Century

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-73782018000100199

Keywords:

Multicultural education, Multicuturalism, Pluriculturalism, Intercultural education, Modern times

Abstract

In essence, modern education has a character of socio-civilizational evangelization in Western values, traditions and ways of thinking, thus achieving "to create a new species: the Hellenized Asians, the Greco-Latin blacks and the Westernized Indians", following the Reflection by Jean-Paul Sartre (2008); however, given the profound socio-cultural changes that have transformed contemporary societies, in the global order, the socio-educational paradigm that best responds to the demands, demands, and historical-civilizing challenges proposed by the dynamics of the new contexts of The construction of the plural and multicultural society, at the same time that it constitutes a transversal strategy to the institutional formative processes, is the model of the Intercultural Education, as an emergent device of the societal formation from, in and for the socio-cultural diversity.

Author Biography

Francisco Guzmán Marín, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional


Profesor de Educación Primaria, por la Escuela Normal Rural “Vasco de Quiroga”. Licenciado en Educación Media en Matemática, por la Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala. Maestro en Filosofía de la Cultura, por la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Doctor en Ciencias Sociales, Área de Concentración: Cultura Política y Relaciones de Poder, por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco. Profesor-Investigador de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional; Coordinador de Sede del Doctorado en Desarrollo Educativo, Énfasis en Formación de Profesores, de la Unidad 161, Morelia, UPN. Premio Nacional de Ensayo “Alfonso Reyes” (1998), por el CNCA y la UANL. Premio Internacional de Poesía en Español “Féile Filíochta”, Irlanda (2003).

Published

2018-05-15

How to Cite

Guzmán Marín, F. (2018). The Challenges of Intercultural Education in the 21st Century. Latin American Journal of Inclusive Education, 12(1), 199–2012. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-73782018000100199