La interculturalidad como respuesta para la prevención del fracaso escolar en contextos de riesgo.

Abstract

This article explores the educational potential of interculturality as a means of combating and preventing school dropout and school failure suffered by at-risk students. If we truly want an inclusive school in which students do not fail, long-term intercultural programmes need to be implemented in the educational system, and these programmes must support pedagogical principles that denounce injustice and social inequalities, and activate practices and actions that reinvent the role of the school as an intercultural, democratic and participatory space. It is argued that dropping out of school and school failure are systemic problems within the institutional-educative framework that affect the more vulnerable students, especially students with functional diversity, students of immigrant origin and minorities. Several ideas to actively prevent school dropout are offered, and some guidelines for innovation and intercultural social-educational change are proposed.