Congreso Internacional de Educación: Lenguas Indígenas, Territorios del Saber, Multilingüismo e Interculturalidad

The degree of Intercultural Bilingual Education at Universidad Nacional de Educación del Ecuador UNAE , the  Nation al Council on the Equality of Peoples and Nationalities, the Secretariat of the Intercultural Bilingual Education System (SEIB), the Secretariat for the Higher Education, Sciences, Technologies and Innovation (SENESCYT), Universidad de Cuenca , the Interculturality Lab of the Latino American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador), the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities from Ecuador (CONAIE) and the UNESCO Office in Quito and Representation for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela propose the First International Congress: Education, Indigenous Languages, Knowledge Territories and Interculturality ( Primer Congreso Internacional: Educación, Lenguas Indígenas, Territorios del Saber e Interculturalidad ).

The congress aims to offer a preliminary answer to the growing lost of interest on indigenous language learning both in the national and international context, and th e consequences a ssociated wit h the lost of sense of the different cultural conceptions of life of the different communitites, their practices in contact with the nature, the world and the incidence of it in the conception of education.