Educación intercultural y lenguas indígenas: Análisis de la reproducción de la desigualdad en el Estado de México

The study derives from an investigation conducive to the analysis of inequality and the exercise of intercultural education in the State of Mexico. Intercultural education is considered as a model for attention to diversity in the current mainstream curriculum for basic education, in which the school should represent a socio-cultural space where values such as respect for diversity and tolerance should be enhanced. The central objective is to analyze the mechanisms that serve to reproduce social inequality from the revision of structuring structures (educational policies), to identify forms of inclusion (processes of assimilation) or exclusion (processes of segregation) of individuals. The foregoing is based on a documentary review and an analysis of the information (situational diagnosis) from the intercultural sociology approach with data provided by the Population Census INEGI (2010) on the exercise of intercultural education in the State of Mexico, a federal entity with a greater concentration of indigenous groups in the country only after states such as Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero. Finally, the paper emphasizes on how inequality implies obstructing an educational project under a democratic framework, including freedom, justice and equity