El sentido de la Educación Comunitaria Superior Intercultural Multilingüe. Un modelo pedagógico para la nacionalidad indígena Chachi, Esmeraldas 2024

Abstract

The objective of this study is to explore the significance for the Chachi nationality of implementing its own educational model, focused on higher community education within its territory. The research is conducted from a qualitative descriptive approach, using ethnography based on participant observation as the main methodology for data collection. It is supported by interviews with semi-structured questions directed at key informants: first- and fifth-year students at the Multilingual Intercultural University Institute, teachers, academic coordinators, and the president of the parish council. It is also complemented by photographic records, field diaries, classroom observation sheets, and a bibliographic and documentary review covering categories such as meaning, community education, Chachi history, and collective rights. Among the main findings, the need for an education system understood as a life project stands out, as does the questioning of formal education and the regular system as agents of acculturation and homogenization, as well as cultural and epistemological recovery. The study concludes that the self-education project for the Chachi nationality has significant political relevance in the context of collective rights. It seeks to recover, strengthen, and preserve the ancestral identity and culture in its territory, based on the principle and model of community education.