A educação intercultural como possibilidade em processos decoloniais na garantia dos direitos da infância

Abstract

Effects from colonial processes persist in the violation of rights and act in the configuration of child poverty in the Latin America context. In the discussion we highlight the pair of child poverty and colonialism, which still walk hand in hand, acting in violation of rights of provision, protection and participation of children. This scenario, which is very frequently reproduced in several Latin American countries, is represented in the statements of Guatemalan girls and adolescents, heard through individual interviews. Ensuring the rights of children requires overcoming the effects of culturally rooted colonial processes. In this direction, the constitution of decolonial processes through intercultural education allows child poverty in the multidimensional perspective to be gradually overcome.