Teacher training within the framework of intercultural education. A state-of-the-art study

Abstract

This paper presents a state of the art about teacher training within the framework of intercultural education, as part of the result of a PHD research project. This research was born from the experience as a teacher trainer in higher education, from which questions arose about the nature of the concepts of interculturality and intercultural education, their appropriation forms and educational possibilities for the transformation of horizons of meaning, in front of the current training needs of people. Sixty-two documents were analyzed, which represents articles at scientific journals, whether reflective or investigative, and books by different Latin American authors that present experiences or make conceptual contributions and discussions on the training of educators. According to the analysis carried out, it was found that: i) the emergence of interculturality and intercultural education are mainly due to social mobilization; ii) there are, at least, two trends in the way in which interculturality and intercultural education are conceived and appropriated according to the social actor that guides it, which are in permanent tension; and iii) that the currents of thought from which the ways of doing and thinking interculturality are based on a strong influence on their political scope.