Ecologías de convergencia para resistir a la influencia de los medios de comunicación en la Educación Intercultural

Abstract

This research focuses on analyzing the impact of globalization on the construction of Ecuadorian intercultural identity. The paper studies the competencies and skills determined by the National Unified General Baccalaureate Curriculum regarding intercultural education, in order to analyze and evaluate its mode of implementation in the Educational Units of Cuenca, so a sample of two public schools is taken, two private and two millennium. This is a descriptive, exploratory and applied study that investigates the influence that globalizing processes exert in the construction of new identities, using the ideological propaganda of the media as a colonizing instrument. The main techniques and instruments to achieve the general and specific objectives are: an exploratory survey, in-depth interviews, and the tabulation of results through the SPSS statistical program. As a result, the implementation of the five convergence ecologies (knowledge, temporalities, recognitions, transescals, productivities) proposed by Santos (2010) is proposed to resist the influence of the media in Intercultural Education. In conclusion, the impact of globalization on intercultural education in Cuenca is evidenced, in this way, affecting the development of identity in the students of Third Baccalaureate of the Educational Units investigated.