El derecho de los pueblos indígenas a una educación superior: reconstrucción de experiencia: el caso de la Escuela Normal Indígena "Jacinto Canek"

this study describes the conditions that enabled the creation of an institution of higher learning as an alternative for indigenous teacher education, in the framework of the rights of indigenous peoples. the research is based on the reconstruction of experience, through a compilation of the voices of actors who participated in constructing the project. to explain this experience, an analysis was made of the judicial frameworks of the educational rights of indigenous peoples as established in international and mexican instruments. also examined are the theories of cultural resistance and identity, with the purpose of reflecting on and comprehending the reason an educational experience is viewed as an expression of resistance, and the way indigenous peoples operate politically in the face of attacks from a hegemonic culture that seeks to homogenize through public policies.