Intercultural education in the Latin America context. A look to the Ethnomathematics

Abstract

This article is based on the analysis of the interculturality and the intercultural entomatical pedagogy created to respond to demands on Intercultural Education by referring to the indigenous and Afrodescendant peoples in Latin America. The objective of this article is to present the Ethnomathematics as a course in the training program for indigenous teachers of the Bachelor of Pedagogy of Mother Earth (BPME) of the University of Antioquia, Colombia. The discussed problem is the knowledge confrontation of persons who belong to different cultural domains, in the framework of intercultural education in the Latin America context. Finally, certain possible solutions to improve the Intercultural education and to the revitalization.