Educational and curricular model in the intercultural universities of Mexico: the case of the Degree in Language and Culture

Abstract

The intercultural university model in Mexico was born as a political response that guaranteed access to higher education for young people who live in predominantly indigenous areas, under the tutelage of a curricular, linguistic and culturally relevant model, removed from Western and hegemonic conceptions. of the urban university. The premise of relevance within intercultural universities is currently widely debated. In this sense, this document aims to analyze how the intercultural educational model and the curricular proposal contribute (or not) to the construction of indigenous student identities and development. of intercultural competencies of students who do not classify themselves as indigenous but who attend these higher education schools, for which the degree in language and culture is taken as a reference.