Family-school-community linkage: a necessity for intercultural education in childhood

Abstract

This article aims to provide reflective routes and concrete actions that allow progress in the family-school-community link, as a necessity to rethink intercultural education from childhood. This implies that the actors of the educational environment, such as kindergarten educators and nursery assistants, and the actors of the social environment, such as the family community, establish intercultural educational relationships based on respect for the other as a legitimate other. The foregoing, to favor educational processes, from a social, cultural and territorial relevance approach, which allows questioning racism and discriminatory practices present in our society. The methodology is a bibliographic review at the national and international level that supports a theoretical reflection on the possibilities of generating a dialogue between Western content and indigenous knowledge in early childhood education, from an intercultural educational approach. The main results show a set of action tracks that promote a rapprochement between family-school community. We conclude in the urgency of articulation of Mapuche and school educational knowledge, to form early childhood from an intercultural epistemological pluralism.