Legal innovations, access, intercultural collaboration and indigenous peoples in Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to identify innovations that have been taking place in Intercultural Higher Education in Latin America, for this a series of bibliographic references were analyzed within the framework of the first encounter of the Intercultural Studies Doctorate dictated by URACCAN. It is found that in the last decades since the conquest and independence of Latin America, indigenous peoples have maintained their struggles regarding their rights and some of their innovative contributions are observed in terms of changes in national and international legal frameworks, creation of various intercultural higher education institutions through various forms of collaboration, visions, experiences and innovative proposals. These are some of the results and with respect to a new multicultural constitutional system on new forms of the State with unique characteristics worldwide and a tendency to build a different University Model, the current one is no longer relevant to the Latin American context, since other forms of teaching, research and extension are required, where interculturality, collaboration and innovation prevail.