Intercultural Education and Anthropology
On April 19, through the Zoom platform and live broadcast on YouTube through Universidad Abierta UDA, the event “Intercultural education is disputed: notes from anthropology".
The event started at 15:00 p.m. and lasted almost two hours.
The talk, organized by the Permanent Chair of Anthropology, was moderated by professor Kamila Torres and presented two speakers: Natalia Buitrón and Armando Muyolema.
Natalia Buitrón, doctor in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics (LSE) and researcher at the University of Oxford, presented her presentation from the United Kingdom, which focused on education, interculturality and the possibilities that ethnographic research opens up to us to rethink the intercultural education
"What we propose is a provocation to reflection rather than a formula that prevents us from seeing the complexity of the situation, to think together creative solutions to quite complex processes," said Buitrón at the beginning of his talk.
For his part, Armando Muyolema, doctor in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh and professor at the University of Wisconsin, presented his power from the United States, Madison, contributing in pedagogical issues and education of minority languages, interculturality, sociolinguistics, Andean criticism and epistemologies.
“I start from the question what is school, and from the assumption that it is something positive per se, without question; but when we see how the school expanded, for example, towards the Amazon, one is surprised at the social reorganization it causes, becoming a representation of civilization ”.
The event ended with a dynamic space as a discussion between speakers and attendees where, in addition, Gabriela Eljuri, a professor at the UDA, invited attendees to attend the monthly spaces organized by the Permanent Chair of Anthropology, which bring together topics various suitable and beneficial for the anthropological knowledge of the general public.
UDA Correspondent
