La pandemia del covid-19, territorios y nuevas prácticas de educación intercultural

Abstract

In Ecuador, COVID-19 pandemic has affected the National Educational System with the paralysis of the face-to-face modality. Despite the negative effects of this policy on academic performance, there have been repercussions, learnings and changes that can enhance interculturality. The paper explores such potentialities through the application of the concept of intercultural territory (Gómez Rendón, 2020) to educational work in the modalities of Intercultural Bilingual Education. It discusses the epistemological difficulty of understanding interculturality only in relation to geographical territories of peoples or nations, and explores the importance of understanding it also as territories or spaces of communication and learning for the whole society, where education plays a fundamental role. To this end, it examines how Intercultural Bilingual Education can enhance its educational model (MOSEIB), and does so through the identification of several cases of innovative practices.