What is it about?
The article explains how the requests for decolonising education in Ecuador have been addressed by the Indigenous organizations through programmes of intercultural education, and how Universities have responded to them, especially in the Amazonia region.
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Why is it important?
Indigenous peoples of Ecuador have contributed to the decolonising movement worldwide, which involves decolonisation of knowledge and of the academy.
Perspectives
The recognition of ancestral knowledge and land-based education is essential if we want to achieve sustainable transformations, but this means that education requires structural changes
Prof. Paola Minoia
Helsingin Yliopisto
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This page is a summary of: Decoloniality and Critical Interculturality in Higher Education: Experiences and Challenges in Ecuadorian Amazonia, Forum for Development Studies, January 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2023.2177562.
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