Cultural diversity as a pedagogical operator for the transformation of racist discourse into a social referent of inclusive ethnic construction

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to develop the strategic possibility of making the cultural diversity a pedagogical operator that contribute to the transformation of the racist discourse prevailing in the children of Riohacha into a social referent of inclusive ethnic construction, which is consistent with the National Social  Integration Policy. This is why the results of the research entitled “Construction of the Imaginary of Cultural Diversity in Children in the District of Riohacha: an approach from the speech (Viecco & Muñoz, 2017), through that, racism is understood as racism as a social process, which is exposed through the speech or through euphemisms, and tend to generate and reproduce a supposed inferiority and subordination among individuals who have ethnic diversity. That is why that pedagogical strategies allow attitudes of recognition of difference must be implemented avoiding a negative assessment that lead to a symmetrical relationship between the individuals of a society and as a result, the interculturality can be achieved. This paper defends the thesis that the condition to transform the social referent of racial descrimination prevalent among schoolchildren entering the various educational institutions. This must be the generation of an inclusive discourse which is recognized in the school environment cultural diversity as an input of the pedagogical process, aimed at the integral formation, consisting of the comformation of a Colombian citizen, based on the cultural wealth of socialized subjects in specific local geographies.