A mono-cultural curricular model, implication for the mapuches student's sociocultural construction of the identity at the IX's region of the Araucania, Chile

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the doctoral thesis 'Implications of a monocultural curricular model in the construction of the socio-cultural identity of mapuche pupils in the IXth region of Araucania.' (Quintriqueo 2007). The research argues that the kimches -wise people- and parents know the educational foundations, contents and aims for the training of people in mapuche knowledge. However, historically, the schooling of mapuche children has been based on western monocultural educational content by not making explicit both logics, the western and the mapuche, in education in schools, a socio-cognitive conflict in the construction of individual and socio-cultural identity is generated. The methodology employed is that of educational research, based on content analysis and theory foundations. The results permit the conceptualization of the implications of the school curriculum in the mapuche context, in the distance between the rationality of educational knowledge and the discourse of teachers as regards the use and knowledge of mapuche cultural patrimony in pedagogical practice. In addition, it allows the definition of an explicatory model to understand the processes of schooling and school curriculum in the mapuche context as a contribution to a model of dialogic and intercultural schooling.