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Panel Presentation

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Indigenous Programs: Intercultural Dialogues Between North and South

Friday, March 21, 2025
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM US EST
Location: Willow East, Mezzanine level
This panel focus on two educational experiences linked to self-identified Indigenous students from Canada, revitalizing their Indigenous languages, and learning about different cultural contexts to establish contrast and similarities. These experiences are developed by Educational Institutions from Canada and various countries from the South Cone. These case studies show different ways of creating more inclusive and diverse programs based on a decolonial and intercultural perspective.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learned about the experiences Indigenous students acquired through the development of two Indigenous Study programs delivered by Higher Educational Institutions in Canada and the Southern Cone. These programs seek to bring the territories closer together while allowing underrepresented Indigenous students to learn about how colonization has had similar impacts across the hemispheres, by establishing an intercultural dialogue between diverse cultures and realities.
  • Learned about the contributions of this experience to the knowledge and dialogue between different Indigenous languages and cultures from the north and the south, highlighting the main components of Study Abroad programming based on a decolonial perspective to revalorize the Indigenous languages and cultures.
  • Understand how the use of the colonialist languages (Spanish/English) can be used to open an intercultural dialogue and how it can be nurtured from the mother languages and Indigenous cultures to bring closer people from faraway geographies that seem very different but have underlying similarities.
  • Acquired of tools and practical recommendations for implementing inclusive educational dynamics and pedagogical strategies based on theories and conceptual models of decolonization and intercultural sharing.