Abstract

ARCOS GUTIERREZ, Lucas. The Right of Indigenous Peoples to a Higher Education. Reconstruction of Experience: The Case of the "Jacinto Canek" Indigenous Normal School. RMIE [online]. 2012, vol.17, n.53, pp.533-555. ISSN 1405-6666.

This study describes the conditions that enabled the creation of an institution of higher learning as an alternative for indigenous teacher education, in the framework of the rights of indigenous peoples. The research is based on the reconstruction of experience, through a compilation of the voices of actors who participated in constructing the project. To explain this experience, an analysis was made of the judicial frameworks of the educational rights of indigenous peoples as established in international and Mexican instruments. Also examined are the theories of cultural resistance and identity, with the purpose of reflecting on and comprehending the reason an educational experience is viewed as an expression of resistance, and the way indigenous peoples operate politically in the face of attacks from a hegemonic culture that seeks to homogenize through public policies.

Keywords : right to education; higher learning; teacher education; indigenous population; cultural identity; Mexico.

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