Integration of Native Pedagogical Model: Closing the Learning Circle

Eva Hortensia Cházaro Arellano 
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of the Americas Puebla, México)

Abstract: This research is a contribution to the systematization of the native paradigm as base of knowledge. Consider the problem that is possible to see in the construction of intercultural process for attend cultural diversity, but with an occidental epistemological base yet. Answer the focal question “How native people learn?” with a qualitative methodology and elements from a native methodology for research, the objective is the integration of the Native Pedagogical Model, for close the learning circle. This study was used methods as deep documental analysis, participant observation, talking circles, familiar stories and interviews. The researcher did an analysis described on details that evidence the Native Wisdom as lifestyle for form whole human beings in the community and Territorial Space.

Key words: indigenous epistemology, indigenous education, indigenous pedagogical tools