Intercultural early childhood education process: educate your child, -Cuba- and community welfare homes programs -HCB -Colombia-

Abstract

This article intends to make a comparative analysis from an intercultural perspective of two non-conventional educational programs: the Cuban program Educa a tu hijo and the Colombian program Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar -HCB-, aimed at early childhood education. Reference is made to the characteristics and strategies that demonstrate the linkage between intercultural education and early childhood in order to strengthen the integral development of children. This emerges as a result of an internationalization experience in which the short course “Didactics of social inclusion and physical activity” was developed during sixteen days in Cuba, as part of the process of training of UNIMINUTO children’s educators.