Abstract

CATALAN PESCE, Ramiro. Various representations about interculturality in a school community. Sinéctica [online]. 2019, n.53.  Epub Aug 28, 2020. ISSN 2007-7033.  https://doi.org/10.31391/s2007-7033(2019)0053-010.

This study analyzes the representations that elaborate high school students about the intercultural educational project that has been developed by their school in Santiago, Chile. The research presents a qualitative methodology based on interviews, conversations, and observations framed in ethnographic fieldwork carry out in the school for three years. This paper will examine the contradictory process of categorization and differentiation that a school perform about students identified like potentially discriminated subjects. Then, it is analyzed the representations elaborated by students about the intercultural project of their school. Although the main aim of the analyzed educative project was to reduce the possibilities of discrimination to students, this study shows the complexity of the process developed by schools to manage the existing diversity on classrooms does arise not only a new school climate but also tensions, contradictions, and various symbolic appropriations among members of the school community.

Keywords : Education; inclusion; intercultural; diversity; educational research.

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