The Common School and Intercultural Education: Failed Ideals and the Parameters of Curricular Possibility

Abstract

This article assesses two educational ideals: the common school and intercultural education. It considers their implementation and achievement in several states, and concludes this to be far from successful. It then questions whether these two aims are themselves reconcilable. In particular, it examines the curricular overcrowding that would be exacerbated by the implantation of intercultural education. It concludes with questions that itemise the pragmatic difficulties of such implementation.