Intercultural Education: Reflections to rethink educational scenarios from a global citizenship.

Abstract

Interculturality is a key concept in the current context, where globalization has made societies increasingly diverse and heterogeneous in cultural terms. Likewise, interculturality in education has become an obligatory discourse, especially in contexts where political-social conflicts are related, directly or indirectly, to the presence in the same social space of groups with diverse cultural identities. The specific purpose of this study is to reflect on the impact of the implementation of intercultural strategies in educational environments that allow rethinking learning environments from a global citizenship perspective. The methodology considers a review of scientific literature on dissemination and regulations, both at international and national level, for the construction and discussion from a critical perspective, of a framework of analysis on the notion of cultural diversity, interculturality, intercultural education and education for global citizenship, from which, it is concluded, that this is assumed positively in the cultural conservation of a nation generating improvements in the quality of educational environments in terms of communication, coexistence and interaction, however, it has been found that there are challenges when carrying out the process of interaction with students who come from diverse cultures and ethnicities, since there is persistence in the presence of prejudices towards families of minority populations, the lack of knowledge of teachers about local knowledge and the lack of skills to develop an education in an intercultural perspective.