SEEDS FOR SUPERIOR EDUCATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. ISIA AS AN EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL THAT IS PLANTED IN SOLID LAND

Abstract

The article analyses how in the context of violence faced by indigenous peoples and communities – using the metaphor of the mäj käm (solid lands) - the Ayuuk Intercultural Higher Institute (ISIA) is an educational proposal from the exercise of the rights of the indigenous peoples, listening to the people, their knowledge, and hopes, which are seeds to respond to the current systemic crisis. Based on the reflection of the political-pedagogical practice, the ISIA educational proposal is analysed in two nodal points: the linguistic-cultural dimension, addressed from the House of Languages, Art and Culture; and from the research/action/participatory projects, which are carried out in indigenous communities through the Degree Seminar, seeking to contribute to the possibility of re-imagining futures for all, recognizing ourselves as diverse and interdependent in a shared world. The article is written from the theoretical and methodological approach of action research; the practices are reflected in relation to the shared process from the question: how to create an education that serves the people and helps to face present and future crises? within the project: “Intercultural policies in higher education in Oaxaca: ethnopolitical educational projects”, from CIESAS Pacífico Sur.