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      Training needs of teachers of Tsáchila
             Intercultural Education
  Necesidades formativas de docentes de Educación
                Intercultural Tsáchila
                        Jacqueline Marilú Aguavil Arévalo is a teacher of the Intercultural Education Unit Madre Laura (Ecuador)
                        (jmaguavila@pucesd.edu.ec) (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3362-9484)

                        Ramiro Andrés Andino Jaramillo is a teacher of the Vivian Luzuriaga Vásquez Educational Unit (Ecuador)
                        (raandinoj@gmail.com) ( https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8547-8780)

              Received: 2017-05-05 / Reviewed: 2018-04-02 /Accepted: 2018-05-07 / Published: 2019-01-01

Abstract                                                         of MOSEIB. In the discussion and conclusions, the impor-
        The current study helps to analyze the train-            tance of the teacher’s initial and continuing education is
ing needs and training processes in which the teachers           explained and argued. In addition, emphasis is placed on
who work in the Bilingual Intercultural Education schools        the need to strengthen teaching competencies based
are immersed: Madre Laura, Tsáchila, Tomás Rivadeneira,          on research and educational proposal adjusted to the
Conadu, Abraham Calazacón, Enrique Terán, Patricio               needs of each educational context. From this, strengthen
Romero Barberis. These institutions are located in com-          Intercultural Bilingual Education in Ecuador.
munities of the Tsáchila ethnic group in Santo Domingo                   Keywords: Education, intercultural education,
de los Tsáchilas Province, Ecuador. The methodological           culture, teacher, training, vocational training.
proposal of the study was based on a non-experimental
design based on qualitative and quantitative research to         Resumen
determine the training short comings of bilingual inter-                 El presente estudio pretende analizar las nece-
cultural teachers and how this affects the educational           sidades formativas y los procesos de capacitación en
processes and the execution of the Education System              los que están inmersos los docentes que laboran en
Model Guidelines Intercultural Bilingual (MOSEIB). The           las Unidades Educativas Interculturales Bilingües: Madre
sample consisted of 19 Tsáchilas teachers and 10 mestizo         Laura, Tsáchila, Tomás Rivadeneira, Conadu, Abraham
teachers.The data collection and techniques analysis were        Calazacón, Enrique Terán, Patricio Romero Barberis.
the survey and the statistical analysis. The results of the      Estas instituciones se encuentran ubicadas en comuni-
research show that teachers of bilingual intercultural insti-    dades de la etnia Tsáchila en la provincia de Santo de los
tutions present training and training needs that are affect-     Tsáchilas, Ecuador. La propuesta metodológica del estu-
ing the educational process and the correct application          dio se basó en un diseño no experimental apoyado en
                                                                 la investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa para determinar

Suggested form of citing: Aguavil Arévalo, J. M., & Andino Jaramillo, R. A. (2019). Training needs of teachers of Tsáchila
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Training needs of teachers of Tsáchila Intercultural Education

las falencias formativas de los docentes interculturales         aplicación del MOSEIB. En la discusión y conclusiones
bilingües y, cómo esto afecta en los procesos educati-           se explica y argumenta la importancia de la formación
vos y la ejecución de los lineamientos de Modelo del             inicial y continua del docente, además se enfatiza la
Sistema de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (MOSEIB).            necesidad de fortalecer las competencias docentes con
La muestra estuvo formada por 19 docentes tsáchilas              base a la investigación y propuestas educativas ajustadas
y 10 docentes mestizos. Las técnicas de recolección y            a las necesidades de cada contexto educativo y, a partir
análisis de datos fueron la encuesta y el análisis estadísti-    de ello, fortalecer la Educación Intercultural Bilingüe en
co. Los resultados de la investigación muestran que              el Ecuador.
los docentes de instituciones interculturales bilingües                   Descriptores: Educación, educación intercultural,
presentan necesidades formativas y de capacitación               cultura, docente, formación, formación profesional.
que están afectando el proceso educativo y la correcta

1. Introduction                                                  between individuals from one culture with
                                                                 another. Daniels (2016) considers that social
Interculturality in a general way concerns itself                and cultural structures are fundamental within
the synergistic relationship between cultures,                   the school context and with more emphasis on
which may have common or different aspects                       the education of each student in the classrooms.
to each other. The characteristic elements of                    This statement makes it possible to clarify that
each culture are reflected in the individuals that               interculturality within education is a mediator
comprise it, but it does not mean that there is a                between the student, the teachers, the family and
difference between one culture and another, but                  the community; which cannot be kept isolated,
it is intrinsically related to the social, cognitive,            but must interrelate to continue social and cul-
cultural, and historical features of each person.                tural transmission, through education and coex-
The human being is not distinguished or char-                    istence within classrooms.
acterized only by genetic traits, this implies the                      Based on the perspectives on intercultur-
importance of the cultural baggage that is trans-                ality and its importance in education, it can be
mitted from generation to generation, allowing                   emphasized that interculturality enhances the
the interrelation between human beings and, of                   relationship between cultures within society,
course in a general way, intercultural dialogue.                 also favors the continuity and perpetuity of dia-
        The relationship between cultures and the                logue without any culture renouncing its original
dialogue that cultural interaction must assume is                identity (López & Pérez, 2013). Cultural diversity
a transcendental element in education because,                   is a main source of integral development of the
according to Rodríguez & Fernández (2017),                       human being and society, in every possible field
schools not only educate an individual but also                  and dimension. For this reason, intercultural
an entire community. This represents similar, but                education is a challenge for schools, high schools
not the same, cultural traits that allow for social-             and universities.
ization among agents of the school community.                           The cultural exchange between students,
It also promotes the improvement of coexistence                  teachers, administrators, parents and the educa-
within educational centers and preponderate the                  tional community is part of education and train-
improvement of education based on intercultur-                   ing in educational institutions, because according
ality and social inclusion of the individuals of a               to López & Pérez (2013) the pedagogical task of
community in each school environment.                            educational centers is to develop an educational
        Education based on interculturality devel-               proposal that guides the transmission of cultural
ops social structures and enables the acquisi-                   elements and values that allow social cohesion
tion of cultural tools that allow interaction                    and intercultural dialogue. It is necessary that

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intercultural education proposes a two-way dia-             without separation or discrimination, since each
logue between the agents of the educational                 individual is an extensive representation of the
community in order to reach an optimum level                cultural transmission that is repeated again and
of education and training for the students.                 again by generation in generation.
       Schools must value intercultural educa-                     Considering the importance of intercul-
tion as an effective way for the development                tural education, in Ecuador the Intercultural
of competencies and personal improvement of                 Bilingual Education Model (MOSEIB) was pro-
each student (Tomé & Manzano, 2016), there-                 posed since 2014, beginning its implementation
fore, the training of intercultural teachers should         in the Sierra region and later it was applied since
highlight and build a committed praxis with dia-            2015 in all bilingual intercultural educational
logue, cultural diversity, inclusion, the search for        institutions of the Ecuadorian educational sys-
values and the transmission of cultural elements            tem. This model proposes that education is an
from generation to generation (López & Pérez,               integral process and must become a harmoni-
2013). Through intercultural education it is pos-           ous way of life of the human being with himself
sible to enhance and deepen the cultural identity           and with others to recover ancestral education,
of each individual and community, without los-              family and community as fundamental ele-
ing or forgetting fundamental features when                 ments in the formation of each person, it must
bringing together each culture.                             also be a contribution to the recognition and
       The intercultural teacher assumes a lead-            appreciation of the knowledge of each culture
ing role as mediator, enabler and promoter of               for the progress of humanity (Ministry of
intercultural dialogue and the teaching of col-             Education of Ecuador, 2014).
lective rights that allow the understanding and                    From the pillars of the MOSEIB teach-
appreciation of each culture to which students              er training must meet certain characteristics,
belong in the classroom (Walsh & García, 2002).             exposed by Moreno (2015), such as: social and
Intercultural education considers the develop-              communication skills, process-oriented praxis,
ment of knowledge, values and attitudes that                community work, knowledge in strategies and
teachers promote in classrooms are part of the              teaching resources and training in intercultural
development of social and cultural competences              and inclusive education. The characteristics pre-
that each student should acquire as part of their           viously indicated by the author are core ele-
education and training throughout life, both                ments in the training of a bilingual intercultural
inside and outside the educational institution.             teacher, because they gather essential skills to
       The fundamentals described on the                    properly guide training processes, and above all,
importance of the teacher as a enabler of inter-            to promote peaceful coexistence in the school
cultural education are part of the social process           community, to put human values into practice
that communities experience when they gather                and to assess each of the cultural traits that each
their own and others’ elements from each cul-               student has, orienting themselves to the practice
ture. According to Walsh & García (2002), the               of dialogue as a guiding axis in the learning and
intercultural teacher must promote forms of                 integral development of each one.
social and cultural interaction based on values                    According to the characteristics that an
and respect among human beings, considering                 intercultural teacher must develop, in the edu-
that each culture provides an extensive baggage             cational reality of the bilingual intercultural
of features that are unified to the social conglom-         institutions close to communities of the Tsáchila
erate and generate a mega culture that welcomes             nationality, it is necessary that there is a constant
the history, social changes, development and                updating of strategies and models of pedagogical
cultural cohesion of the human being, All this              management to adapt to the new ways of teach-

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ing and learn, in addition to prioritizing the inte-             community. In this way, López & Pérez (2013),
gral development and intercultural training of                   express that intercultural education is linked to
Tsáchilas and mestizos students who live in the                  the actuality and reality of the school context.
same classroom. According to Lalangui, Ramón                     This requires a formative treatment in teachers
& Espinoza (2017), the teacher who receives ini-                 who work in bilingual intercultural institutions,
tial training to direct and manage an educational                because interculturality is a competence that
process is at the beginning of his continuous                    first develops in the teacher so that it can be
process of teacher training, as the educational                  transferred to each classroom, since the Tsáchila’s
praxis and work continued in the classroom                       worldview is a value added during the execution
allows teachers to further develop skills in the                 of learning experiences in which the teacher
exercise of educational work.                                    and students intervene. The close relationship
        The continuous training of the bilingual                 between teacher training and intercultural-
intercultural teacher can be a positive index                    ity is built on educational practice, therefore, it
in the professional performance in pedagogy,                     requires an analysis of the different sociocultural
didactics, methodology, curriculum, education-                   contexts to which the students belong and that
al inclusion and intercultural education. The                    bilingual intercultural teachers should adapt and
process of initial and ongoing teacher training                  propose the best strategies to train and respond
can reverse some problems in education in gen-                   to the needs of the students and, in general, of
eral, but also positively affects inclusion, inter-              the educational community melded with the cul-
culturality, dialogue, the peaceful resolution                   tural features of the Tsáchila ethnic group.
of conflicts and the promotion of a culture of                          Based on the problems described on the
peace. In this sense, the successful performance                 training needs of intercultural teachers, in addi-
of intercultural teachers could be the result of                 tion to the discrepancies between the reality
models and strategies adapted to the needs of                    and the educational praxis of the application
the educational context of the institution and                   of intercultural bilingual education models,
would correspond to innovative teaching and                      the research process was placed in the context
learning processes oriented towards education-                   of tsáchila educational units located in the
al quality (Álvarez, 2014). From the perspec-                    communities: El Búa, Peripa, Otongo Mapalí,
tives previously written, Ungerfeld & Morón                      Chigüilpe, Cóngoma, Los Naranjos, El Poste.
(2016), explain that teachers must possess a                     The Tsáchilas are settled in the province of
minimum of specific knowledge, intellectual                      Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, they are an
and technical skills, as well as a development of                endemic ethnic group of the province and rep-
social attitudes and behaviors that allow under-                 resent a cultural and ancestral legacy recognized
standing the needs of students and determining                   throughout Ecuador.
the stages of development that the students                             In this sense, the study focuses on analyz-
who have a special educational need must pro-                    ing the training needs and training processes in
gressively reach or, on the contrary, establish a                which the teachers who work in the following
continuous and inclusive process that responds                   Educational Units are immersed: Madre Laura,
to the needs of each student, expressly consid-                  Tsáchila, Tomás Rivadeneira, Conadu, Abraham
ering diversity as a core axis in the human and                  Calazacón, Enrique Terán, Patricio Romero
educational formation of each.                                   Barberis. The results and conclusions presented
        Teacher training is currently oriented to                in this study will be useful to replant Bilingual
new educational practices, which are focused on                  Intercultural Education processes, which, to a
teacher development as a means to respond to                     certain extent, seems to have inconsistencies
the urgent needs of students and the educational                 between theory and practice.

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2. Materials and Methods                                       tutions and did not represent an extensive num-
                                                               ber for the process of data collection. Of the total
The work methodology applied in the research                   of 29 teachers who teach classes from the initial
considers a non-experimental design to analyze                 to the tenth year of Basic General Education, 19
the educational situation of the intercultural                 teachers are of the Tsachila nationality and 10
teachers that make up the study; without manip-                teachers are ethnic mestizo.
ulation of variables or random assignments of                          For the data collection a survey was
subjects. In this sense, a descriptive and diag-               applied with questions related to the initial
nostic process of the formative characteristics                teacher training and the recent training on
of the teachers is proposed and how they influ-                intercultural education. The data allowed to
ence the context of bilingual intercultural edu-               determine the needs of these teachers within the
cation of the educational institutions in which                context of bilingual intercultural educational
they work. The work proposal is systematized                   institutions in the city of Santo Domingo. Based
through quantitative and qualitative research                  on the data obtained, it was necessary to apply
to analyze the needs in the training of bilin-                 statistical analysis to systematize and interpret
gual intercultural education teachers who teach                condensed information from the surveys, and
classes in educational institutions located in the             a bibliographic analysis was applied to situate
communes of the Tsáchila nationality in the city               and contextualize the theoretical needs of teach-
of Santo Domingo. Based on the proposed meth-                  ers with respect to execution and knowledge
odology, the study was conducted by describing                 of the Bilingual Intercultural Education Model
and substantiating the needs identified in the                 (MOSEIB), in effect in the national education
                                                               system in Ecuador up to the present. According
teachers considered for the study.
                                                               to the perspectives proposed in the study, it was
       The sample of teachers who were part of
                                                               possible to carry out an analysis of the possible
the study was intentional, because it was deter-
                                                               complications and difficulties that occur for the
mined without applying any random selection
                                                               teachers when applying the guidelines of inter-
methods. This was because the subjects were
                                                               cultural education in the classroom.
clearly identified as bilingual intercultural teach-
ers by the denomination of the educational insti-
                                                               3. Analysis and Results
Chart 1. Academic level of bilingual intercultural teachers

 High School                                                                      34,48%

 Third level degree                                                               58,62%

 Fourth level degree                                                              6,90%
 Total                                                                            100%

Source: Own elaboration, data obtained from the survey of teachers of Intercultural Bilingual Tsáchila Units.

      Based on the obtained results, 34.48%                    a fourth-level degree (see chart 1). The results
of teachers working in bilingual intercultural                 observed in the chart show that more than half
education units have a high school diploma, and                of the surveyed teachers have a third level degree,
58.62% of teachers with a third-level degree. In               but it is also observed that there is a relevant
contrast to the percentages described above, only              percentage of teachers with only high school
6.90% of bilingual intercultural teachers have                 education, which, in a certain way, can affect the

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implementation of educational processes and                      in which bilingual intercultural institutions are
formative in bilingual intercultural institutions.               located, but it also has a possible relationship
In fact, the imbalance in terms of the academic                  with the command of Tsa’fiki, which is the native
training of the surveyed teachers explains the low               language of the Tsáchilas, and which the mestizo
percentage of teachers with fourth level studies,                teachers probably have not mastered to be able to
evidencing the need to implement a compre-                       teach in the Tsáchila mother tongue. This com-
hensive process of teacher training, aimed espe-                 municative factor may increase the presence of
cially at teachers with a high school diplomas to                low education level teachers but that are fluent in
increase and improve the quality of education                    Tsa’fiki and Spanish, added to the little incentive
within bilingual intercultural institutions located              of educational authorities for third level training
in Tsáchila communities.                                         or training based on the MOSEIB implies a stag-
        Possibly, the representativity of high                   nation or conformism of these teachers as they
school teachers is related to the rural context                  impart their classes.

Chart 2. Teacher training and training in Intercultural Bilingual Education

 Training in Intercultural Bilingual Education                                             86,21%

 Teacher training in Intercultural Bilingual Education                                     93,10%

 Training received in the last 6 months                                                    37,93%

 Training received in the last 2 years                                                     17,24%

 Knowledge of the Bilingual Intercultural Education System Model (MOSEIB)                  37,93%

Source: Own elaboration, data obtained from the survey of teachers of Intercultural Bilingual Tsáchila Units.

        According to the results, 86.21% of teach-               doubt about the educational work of bilingual
ers have bilingual intercultural education, and                  intercultural teachers cannot be generalized for
93.10% of teachers have been trained in this type                all of Ecuador because in each educational con-
of education. Regarding the frequency in which                   text variations are observed. From the obtained
the surveyed teachers receive training, 37.93%                   data, it seems that teachers have a misperception
state that they have been trained in the last 6                  about bilingual intercultural education or it is
months, and 17.24% of the teachers have been                     not strong enough, since the application of the
trained in the last 2 years (See chart 2). Unlike the            MOSEIB starts from the knowledge of its guide-
favorable results regarding the bilingual intercul-              lines and, above all, implies a continuous train-
tural education training and received training                   ing process to establish educational processes
processes, it is contradictory that only 37.93% of               coupled to the Tsáchila worldview. Teaching with
teachers know about the Bilingual Intercultural                  the mother tongue does not imply an intercul-
Education System Model (see chart 2).                            tural education, it is an important part, but it
        Based on the results of chart 1, a sub-                  requires a change of perception on the part of
stantial relationship with the results of chart                  these teachers on how to interculturally educate
2 is determined, since there is a need for aca-                  students Tsáchilas and other ethnic.
demic training of bilingual intercultural teach-
ers, since, apparently, is affecting the application             4. Discussion and Conclusions
of MOSEIB, which is the core axis of intercul-
tural education in educational units located in                  Based on the results, it is evident that there is
communities of the Tsáchila ethnic group. This                   a significant number of teachers with a high

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school diploma, unlike teachers who have third              by the organization of control and management
and fourth level pedagogical training and quali-            of education in Ecuador.
fications. The previous premise shows a first                       Teacher training is and will remain a
approximation to the training needs of teachers             point of reflection, uncertainties and conflicts in
who work in intercultural educational institu-              every educational system. Moreover, according
tions located in communities of the Tsáchila                to the research conducted by Lozano (2016), the
ethnic group. In this sense, what is happening              majority of teachers who were surveyed in their
with these teachers is possibly stagnation in               study did not have a professional improvement
terms of progress in training and updating of               project, since they did not feel prepared for an
knowledge and quality in the professional per-              intellectual challenge or because the social and/
formance of teachers. According to De los Saltos            or economic environment did not allow it. in
& Abreu (2013), the continuous training in the              some cases, the importance of teacher training
teaching career allows, in the first place, to get          for the achievement of educational and social
the teachers titled and secondly, to guarantee              purposes of educational reforms is dismissed.
the professional development and to gather the              Given the case of the aforementioned study, it
competences that allow the exercise of teaching             seems that bilingual intercultural teachers also
in the educational context. However, this is not            lack a teacher professionalization project. In
evident in the school and professional context of           addition, they may have the same training needs
teachers working in bilingual intercultural insti-          and difficulties in accessing training that would
tutions, therefore, professional development is             allow them to improve their educational work
being affected and, in turn, this may be a turning          and achieve new professional achievements in
point in the teaching process and learning that is          their respective school contexts.
established in each classroom of the intercultural                  Teachers who work in intercultural insti-
institutions of the Tsáchila ethnic group.                  tutions of the Tsáchila ethnic group require
       The training needs of teachers working in            processes of continuous training in intercultural
intercultural institutions can adversely influence          education in a general way and specifically that
the assessment and orientation of teacher train-            which is contextualized with the worldview and
ing and career, since teachers who hold a high              culture of the Tsáchila ethnic group. Therefore,
school diploma do not seem to want to continue              it seems that the need for professionalization of
with a process of teacher professionalization or,           teachers with a high school diploma is accom-
on the contrary, these teachers have not been               panied by the need for continuous training
considered or called in the processes of continu-           in intercultural education in all teachers par-
ous training and professionalization offered by             ticipating in the study. In this way, it is necessary
universities with the endorsement and sponsor-              to enhance teacher education as a core aspect
ship of the Ministry of Education of Ecuador.               in education but without underestimating the
Inciarte, Camacho & Casillas (2017) mention                 accumulation of experience and praxis that each
that the practices that are oriented towards the            teacher has, since Pegalajar (2014) considers that
development of the teaching career start from               professional development is more than training;
the reflexive intervention of the actors of the             it is the product of the pedagogical development,
educational field. Therefore, the formative needs           the experience, the knowledge, the understand-
of the teachers who work in intercultural institu-          ing, the emotions and the individual feelings of
tions of the Tsáchila ethnic group, are a shared            each teacher as influential aspects on the educa-
result of the little initiative of training in teach-       tional processes.
ers and the inadequate process of insertion into                    Possibly this problem is affecting the
training processes and teacher training offered             teaching and learning process that takes place in

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the classes, because if the bilingual intercultural              ing social practices of tolerance, dialogue, atten-
teachers do not have a minimum profile of train-                 tion to diversity and the generation of spaces that
ing they could be improvising, proposing inap-                   facilitate interculturality and complex thinking.
propriate activities or misinterpreting the edu-                         The importance of training teachers who
cational and educational process in which they                   work in Tsáchila bilingual intercultural institu-
are immersed students. Iglesias (2014) mentions                  tions is and will continue to be a fundamental
that it is necessary to educate for human for-                   aspect in the improvement of education and
mation with a community vision and promote                       diversification of the educational system, for this
social change through the participation and                      reason, Andino (2018) mentions that teacher
proposal of inclusive educational projects for                   training and education from any perspective
the development of intercultural competences,                    or point of analysis is a positive aspect in the
however the teachers participating in the study                  improvement of educational processes, since
do not have a profile of training in intercultural               the teaching career is an unfinished process
education and most have not yet begun a process                  that must be adapted to changes in the educa-
of teacher training that allows them to improve                  tion system or updates of educational work.
the imbalance of regular education with respect                  The improvement of intercultural education is
to intercultural education.                                      transcendental, but with training and training of
        The possible stagnation of intercultural                 bilingual intercultural teachers, because other-
education contextualized with the Tsáchila eth-                  wise, the gaps and procedural gaps in education-
nic group does not occur in isolation, because                   al institutions located in Tsáchilas communities
this is related to the educational system, teacher               would continue to be fed.
training, access to education, innovation and                            The superficial approach of teacher
curricular proposals; and in the case of teacher                 training and the consideration of training as a
training it seems that it is not being considered                secondary element in the processes of teacher
as a transformative aspect of education. In this                 development in a certain way causes a limited
sense, Vizcarra, Tirado & Triviño (2016) men-                    conception of the complexity of the teaching
tion that educational transformations must be                    career. Being located in the analysis of teacher
accompanied by training and professionalization                  training in intercultural education, Tipa (2017)
of teachers to achieve the goals and commit-                     mentions that this must be linked to research,
ments established in the educational proposal                    but also poses the following issues for an ade-
and, in this way, to think about transforming                    quate intercultural teacher training: (a) Access
and Improving intercultural education without                    of young people from ethnic groups to higher
proper training and teacher training would be a                  education, (b) greater geographical access of uni-
total incongruence between educational legisla-                  versities, (c) integration of ancestral knowledge
tion and the reality of the school context.                      with professional knowledge, (d) valorization of
        Based on the previous explanations about                 the language and worldview of ethnic groups,
the inconsistencies with regard to training as a                 (e) teacher development and strengthening in
transformative aspect of education, Villagómez                   Intercultural Education and (f) promotion and
(2017) warns that a critical look must be taken                  integration of teachers to ethnic groups and
of the educational experience of teachers, since                 communities.
their training must be parallel to their experience                      The explanations given on the inconsis-
in educational processes to understand the edu-                  tencies of teacher training in intercultural educa-
cational, didactic, pedagogical, social and proce-               tion are complemented by what seems to be an
dural requirements of the agents that make up                    inadequate or low frequency of training in inter-
the educational community, as well as promot-                    culturality, diversity, ethnic worldview as part

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