Educación intercultural: La perspectiva de los pueblos indígenas de Bolivia

Abstract

The intercultural education, as a polysemic concept, serves to different objectives in its implementation, i.e. to the indigenous people and to State interests.

In the Bolivian case, the intercultural education was a demand and a proposal from the indigenous people and is considered a “liberation instrument”, from this place of enunciation, the organizations and the indigenous people took leading action, constituting themselves, among others, in the spear head of the transformation processes and the State interculturalization.

From the perspective of intercultural education, in addition to putting itself with the purpose of political, economic and epistemic decolonization, it widens its horizons to the respect relations, living in balance and harmony with mother earth, oriented to reach the Bolivian population living well.

The living well, as a new life paradigm, implies in de-constructing ways of life based in individualism, and to show consciousness of an interdependent  communal life, among people as well as between people and the mother earth. This implies setting scenes to intercultural dialogue that also allows the configuration of intercultural societies. Therefore, it is necessary that the Bilingual Intercultural Education is constituted State Policy before being constituted government policy.