Disputed strategies: higher education and indigenous populations in the construction of Latin American nation-states

Resumo

This article gives an account of the ways in which indigenous populations in Latin America have been excluded / included in the processes of design and implementation of higher education as a field in permanent dispute from where the hegemonic project of the nation-state is built in modernity . For this, the document locates the relationships between modernity, education and the nation-state in Latin America and explains what the contemporary crisis of higher education consists of as a starting point for reflection. Subsequently, the document focuses on analyzing how the ways in which indigenous peoples and communities have participated in the dispute over the national education project have been transformed, paying special attention to higher education