Ancestral Knowledge and Its Integration in Ecuadorian Higher Education: Discourses, Policies and Resistance

Fernanda Chuchuca Torres, Tania Azucena Carrera Rosero, Freddy Auqui Calle and José Hurtado Freire
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Fernanda Chuchuca Torres: Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
Tania Azucena Carrera Rosero: Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
Freddy Auqui Calle: Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
José Hurtado Freire: Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador.

Actas Iberoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales, 2025, vol. 3, issue 3, 73-83

Abstract: This text is a theoretical review article that analyzes the discourses, policies, and practices surrounding the integration of ancestral knowledge into Ecuadorian higher education. Based on a selection of recent studies on interculturality, the dialogue of knowledge, and educational experiences in various university contexts, the main tensions between constitutional recognition (since 2008) of cultural diversity and institutional mechanisms that, despite advances, reproduce forms of epistemic exclusion are identified. The review emphasizes the need to reconfigure higher education spaces as settings for critical, inclusive, and transformative interculturality.

Keywords: Decoloniality; dialogue of knowledge; higher education; interculturality; ancestral knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.69821/AICIS.v3i3.149

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