TOWARDS DECOLONIAL RESEARCH: CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE TEACHING OF RESEARCH IN INTERCULTURAL BILINGUAL EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION IN PERU

Kvietok F.; MacKee M.M.; Sota I.G. · Dialogo Andino (2022) · DOI: 10.4067/s0719-26812022000100112

Resumen

The teaching of research in intercultural bilingual education (IBE) university programs presents a challenge given the supremacy of positivist paradigms, quantitative methodologies and monolingual academic discourse in Spanish as privileged referents in higher education. In this study we systematize an experience of research teaching (2016-2019) in an IBE training program of a private university in Lima, with the purpose of contributing to decolonizing pedagogies in the field of research education. Based on an analysis of autoethnographic reflections, student testimonies collected in 5 in-depth interviews and over 30 thesis projects, we explore the following questions: how has this decolonizing research pedagogy been developed in order to empower young researchers grounded on their educational practice and culture? And, what are the experiences and reflections of our IBE graduates on this process? Our findings reveal the diverse identities, epistemologies and communicative practices that are part of, and constitute, the research teaching-learning process, which we view as a collective and continuous construction. We conclude that decolonizing pedagogies in the field of research education seek to vindicate and reaffirm the knowledges, identities, communicative practices and ways of relating of indigenous peoples, as well as to foster a critical and reflexive appropriation by student-researchers of the contributions of other cultural traditions in order to understand and transform educational realities.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco