INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION IN A CROSSROADS: PEDAGOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTERCULTURAL SCHOOL

Educating for cultural diversity and multiculturalism is a positive assessment attitude towards communication and interaction between cultures, and to the understanding of diversity as a positive and necessary learning factor in the current school organizations. Existing schools will be inclusive and intercultural so far as to accept and be enriched by multiculturalism as cooperative educational building primarily aimed at improving school life. This paper argues that interculturality today is already configured as a priority in the theoretical and practical pedagogical thinking of teachers. Now the challenge is complex, and intercultural education today is between the desire to be a critical educational approach, and the reality of being at a crossroads exaltation ranging from folk cultures of origin of students compensatory immigrant curricular approach. Our objective is to encourage debate and reflection on teaching practical ways that have been drawing on intercultural education and to allow the generation of an inclusive and intercultural school.