Abstract

OROZCO-LOPEZ, Efrén. Educational Autonomy or Interculturality? Alternative Education in the Indigenous People of Chiapas, Mexico. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2018, n.74, pp.37-61. ISSN 0120-3916.

This paper is a reflection on the relevance of intercultural education in contexts where educational autonomy is sought. With the emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the mountains of southeastern Mexico, the communities fighting for their rights to autonomy and self-determination and against programs imposed by the authorities foster educational autonomy by developing and consolidating alternative education processes to the intercultural education model implemented by the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education. The product of an anthropological field work carried out for approximately 10 years with the support of a resistance organization, this text exposes the existing gaps and inconsistencies between the intercultural educational discourse of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) and the conception of alternative and/or autonomous education in the communities of Altos de Chiapas.

Keywords : autonomy; struggle; resistance; indigenous people; intercultural.

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