Interculturality as a transversal content in Peruvian university education. Re?ective notes

Abstract

Interculturality as an educational approach is included in the guidelines of the Peruvian educational system (General Education Law 28044 and National Curriculum of Basic Education); however, in the curricular structures of national and private universities, it is ignored, generating a gap between regular basic education and higher education. This reality leads us to reflect on the need to incorporate interculturality as a transversal content in higher education, reflections that emerge from the context of the Puno region, where according to the information of the censuses of 2017, most of its population is self-identified with an original town and where at least half of the students in higher education come from homes of quechua or aimara origin. The challenge that arises is to build a university with the quality standards that the international academy demands, without distancing us from our academy demands, without distancing us from the surrounding multicultural reality.