A program for the intercultural education in Honduras: evaluation process and its results

Abstract

This article argues how the literature
of oral tradition, presented
as picture book, can be used as a
highly effective didactic resource
in bilingual intercultural education
programs, thanks to the
identification of intertextual elements
among the narrations of
the cultures in contact, and
whose educational functionality
is enhanced following recommendations
of: communicative
approach, literary education,
comparative literature, the aesthetics
of reception and neuroscience.
To verify this, a curricular
proposal designed in these
terms was evaluated in educational
centers in the Northern region
of Honduras, where three
cultures coexist: mestiza,
garífuna and miskita. The research
was of a qualitative type
with a phenomenological, open
and emergent design. As a main
result, a wide acceptance of this
proposal by the educational community
was achieved, implying
a new assessment of the traditional
oral literature and the
methodology to teach
interculturality