Decolonizing the School: Education for Justice in Indigenous Communities of Southeastern Mexico ; Descolonizar la Escuela: Educación por la Justicia en Comunidades Originarias del sureste de México

Abstract

The objectives of the educational policies of the current Mexican government through the New Mexican School (NEM) propose a democratic, equitable, comprehensive, inclusive and intercultural education, the country's structural inequality remains. Educational policies, strongly linked to race, social class and gender relations, favors the reproduction of a conservative educational strategy that places native communities in a colonial epistemic relationship, favoring prejudices, biases and hegemonic stereotypes that affect the exercise of fundamental human rights. The coexistence with students of the Universidad de la Tierra-CIDECI in the framework of the stay at the International Center for Social Innovation (CIIS) of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, the words shared among the students and the research on the Zapatista educational practice and the decolonial theory, fostered a critical political-educational analysis that situates the Universidad de la Tierra-CIDECI model as an alternative to the exclusion, standardization, exploitation and disregard for the native communities and their ways of life in the current neoliberal capitalism. The Universidad de la Tierra-CIDECI project constitutes a decolonial process of autonomy, gender equity, and defense of the territories. ; Los objetivos de las políticas educativas del actual gobierno mexicano a través de la Nueva Escuela Mexicana (NEM) proponen una educación democrática, equitativa, integral, inclusiva e intercultural, la desigualdad estructural del país se mantiene. Las políticas educativas, fuertemente vinculada a las relaciones de raza, clase social y género favorece la reproducción de una estrategia educativa conservadora que coloca a las comunidades originarias en una relación epistémica colonial, favoreciendo los prejuicios, sesgos y estereotipos hegemónicos que afectan el ejercicio de los derechos humanos fundamentales. A partir de la convivencia con estudiantes de la Universidad de la Tierra-CIDECI en el marco de la estancia en el Centro Internacional para la ...