The relationship of otherness for intercultural education

overcoming the remnants of eurocentrism

Abstract

The main issue of this paper is “how to provide a truly intercultural education within the school environment”. Through decolonial thought I propose an analysis of our knowledge institutions (university, school, and discipline curriculum) to highlight the permanence of the Eurocentric perspective of knowledge validation. These remnants of Eurocentrism hierarchize the various ways of producing knowledge and, even worse, give exotic character to non-Western cultures. This article aims to enhance non-Western ways of dealing with the production of knowledge and learning, and from that, proposes the intercultural experience as a more comprehensive paradigm of learning, estrangement and ethnic-racial education.