La lucha por la educación propia, la experiencia del CRIC 1971-1996.

Abstract

Historically, indigenous peoples have suffered several arrasments due their worldview is different to the hegemonic vision of the elite that represents the western values ​​of ecumenical religions, rationality and economic exploitation of nature. However, in all this ethnocide scenario (because the elimination was not only physical but cultural too) in the department of Cauca since the first conflicts, born a remarkable struggle spirit that encourages warriors to resist in that town, in that context the indigenous community members created in 1971 a organization called Consejo Regional del Cauca (CRIC) that claims the recovery of the lands, the defense of their own political organization and, since 1978, the movement members demands their one's own education on the thought to unite their organization, their culture and transmit their struggle spirit, that creates a new way of assuming and experiencing education using the difference and multicultural reality as elements to make alternatives to the traditional schools.