Strategies to generate intercultural processes in indigenous communities

Abstract

The indigenous population in Colombia has been increasing according to figures published by DANE, since between 2005 and 2019 the indigenous population has increased by 36.8% and a large part of this population lives in rural areas, presenting great needs for basic services such as health, education, food or housing, Monje (2014). From there the idea of carrying out this research is born that aims to recognize the programs and strategies that allow generating processes of interculturality through physical activity, physical education, sport or recreation, designed from 2004 to 2019 for the indigenous population. For this purpose, a qualitative research was designed with a hermeneutic approach and a documentary method, where a documentary search was carried out in open and restricted databases, as well as university repositories; where 150 documents were found between articles and undergraduate thesis, after filtering the information were analyzed 121 which met the inclusion criteria, in a search spectrum year (2004-2019), concept of interculturality, inclusion, sport, physical activity, recreation and/or physical education. In conclusion, interculturality is a vital process at the formal and non-formal educational level because it can occur in different environments and with different populations, through different strategies, in addition, the creation of spaces for dialogue between different populations allows an exchange of information and knowledge fundamental to the understanding of lived realities, and from this design better strategies to achieve processes of interculturality and inclusion.