School and interculturality: Elements to think diversity in the curriculum

Abstract

The goal is to think that interculturality, as a mechanism between different cultures, has become a perspective of thinking about education as a whole. The intercultural perspective contradicts the ethnocentric discourse, evidencing the contradictions in explicit and implicit curricular practices, operating a "crack" in the school and educational system, leading the professionals who are involved in it to a reflection that proposes the need for change and deconstruction. We must acknowledge that the complexity of the statements denounces the need to confront the dominant power relations in school, aiming to make it a place for meeting, approaching and articulating differences, starting with the incorporation of intercultural relations and the promotion of dialogue between existing cultural standards and their multiple meanings. It becomes a challenge to build a new relationship with the curriculum understood as a process of social construction.