The present essay addresses as a starting point the value and richness of the cultural diversity of indigenous communities in the context of learning and how this knowledge is made invisible by a homogeneous curriculum that does not provide spaces to value other ways of thinking. Then, a brief historical tour is presented on the colonization of indigenous and Afro-American peoples and the effects that the rational and unquestionable thought of the European generated in it, which was characterized by exercising intellectual violence towards the knowledge of Latin American culture; to end with the cultural rescue that researchers and academics propose, through the epistemological lines of the south.

El presente ensayo aborda como punto de partida, el valor y riqueza que posee la diversidad cultural de comunidades indígenas en el contexto de aprendizaje y cómo este conocimiento ha sido invisibilizado por un currículum homogéneo que no proporciona espacios para valorar otras formas de pensar. Luego, se presenta un breve recorrido histórico sobre la colonización de los pueblos indígenas y afroamericanos y los efectos que generó en ella el pensamiento racional e incuestionable del europeo, el cual se caracterizó por ejercer una violencia intelectual hacia los conocimientos de la cultura latinoamericana; para finalizar con el rescate cultural que investigadores y académicos se proponen, a través de las líneas epistemológicas del sur.

The present essay addresses as a starting point the value and richness of the cultural diversity of indigenous communities in the context of learning and how this knowledge is made invisible by a homogeneous curriculum that does not provide spaces to value other ways of thinking. Then, a brief historical tour is presented on the colonization of indigenous and Afro-American peoples and the effects that the rational and unquestionable thought of the European generated in it, which was characterized by exercising intellectual violence towards the knowledge of Latin American culture; to end with the cultural rescue that researchers and academics propose, through the epistemological lines of the south.