Interculturality In Peru And The Process Of Forming An Intercultural Society

Abstract

Peru is considered a multicultural, multicultural and multilingual country, due to its great cultural diversity of ethnic or native peoples who live in the Andes and the Amazon, in addition to Afro-Peruvian groups and international migrants. However, the vision of the country has been homogeneous and the cultural diversity has been hidden by the cultural heritage of the white Spanish. Relations between cultures have been asymmetric, expressed in discrimination, marginalization, exclusion, from the dominant-dominated opposition; majority-minority. In our country, education has been oriented to transmit information from the Western world, without valuing the ancestral knowledge of the existing cultural groups in the country. Currently, this paradigm is being changed and the proposal of the intercultural approach has been incorporated into education to promote multicultural teaching-learning and improve relations between different cultures. The new national educational policy marks an unavoidable challenge: to create a new curricular model to form intercultural societies, reinforcing and training educators with didactics and intercultural skills, capable of valuing and recovering knowledge of cultural diversity, to fulfill the role of educating in interculturality. and to train intercultural citizens in a double dimension: respond to the country and act in the context of globalization.