El derecho a la educación en Colombia para la comunidad Wayuu de la Guajira

Abstract

The research starts from a fundamental problem of neglect of indigenous education and lack of materialization of current public policies. Lack of management, especially with one of the communities with the largest number of members, that is, the Wayúu Community. We are talking about the right to one's own education, an ethno-educational system adjusted to the unique needs of its population, guided by ethno-educators. Currently, the state provides access to higher education for the indigenous population, but it is weak in the foundation of its programs and their execution, taking into account that much of the knowledge acquired during an academic process, for example, from a city dweller, are essentially different and will not eventually allow the normal development of a Wayúu member for reasons as simple as the differences in cultural formation, language, customs, ideals, which they carry with them since before their birth. Hence the importance of establishing the conditions to guarantee the right to education in Colombia for the Wayúu community of La Guajira in order to preserve its multiculturalism, where the construction of its own ethno-educational system that provides complete educational administrative autonomy is vital; For which, the qualitative method will allow to project in a more specific way the problem of this work, generating a critical and constructive perception, analyzing the collected data that will derive in direct access to the object of study to be investigated.