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Plurinationality and epistemic justice

The challenges of intercultural education in Ecuadorian Amazonia
Buch | Hardcover
XVIII, 206 Seiten
2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-58859-4 (ISBN)
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This book examines interculturality in education in Ecuador at the crossroads between an educational model inherited from the colonial past, which still represents white and mestizo hegemony, and a vision of an alternative form of decolonizing education that contributes to the development of an intercultural and plurinational state, as promised in the Ecuadorian Constitution. Championing indigenous voices and discussing the role of education in the fight against poverty and in the recovery of cultural and ecological diversity, the authors propose that quality education for all, a target of the Sustainable Development Goals, should move out of the commonly defined models of technological modernization and cultural globalization that disvalue knowledge from other cultures. Through their analysis of practical experimentations of indigenous and intercultural education in Amazonian schools and universities, they conclude that enhanced preservation of indigenous languages, cultures and ecological knowledge prove fundamental prerequisites for biological conservation and strengthening societies' resilience to climate change threats.

Ruth Arias-Gutiérrez (Ecuador) is a militant woman, Andean - Amazonian, worker for biodiversity, equity and the exercise of rights and responsibilities; she is a full professor at the Amazon State University in Puyo, Ecuador where she has been serving as The Rector from 2019-2021. She is the PI in the project Ecocultural Pluralism in the Ecuadorian Amazon (funded by the Academy of Finland). She has been a member of the environmental management network of the Ecuadorian Amazon with indigenous knowledge and is part of the European Action COST Decolonizing Development.

Paola Minoia (Italia) is an associate professor of political and economic geography at the University of Turin and an adjunct professor of global development studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests intersect the fields of political ecology and post-development with a focus on territoriality, relations between the state and minority groups, socio-environmental justice, eco-cultural knowledge, the pluriverse and decoloniality. She was the Principal Investigator in the project Ecocultural Pluralism in the Ecuadorian Amazon financed by the Academy of Finland and a co-leader in the network Decolonising Development. She was also part in the Executive Committee of EADI.

Chapter 1: introduction: Education as cultural and ecological revitalization among Amazonian nationalities.- Chapter 2 - Public education policies and the struggle of the Indigenous movement for a decolonial interculturality.- Chapter 3 - Characteristics of the inclusion of Indigenous peoples in the school system.- Chapter 4 - From discourse to structure: interculturality in Amazonian universities.- Chapter 5 - Intercultural education and agency of Indigenous communities: a view from the Sapara territory.- Chapter 6 - Indigenous young people's access to schools in the province of Pastaza.- Chapter 7 - Educational experiential calendars: creating links between Indigenous communities and high school.- Chapter 8 - Interculturality in the classroom: accompanying students from minority cultures in Pastaza.- Chapter 9 - Participatory Design interventions: supporting university student care networks in times of Covid.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie EADI Global Development Series
Zusatzinfo XVIII, 206 p. 19 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte amazon • Decolonialism • Ecuador • Education • Interculturality • open access • Policy
ISBN-10 3-031-58859-2 / 3031588592
ISBN-13 978-3-031-58859-4 / 9783031588594
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