La Educación Intercultural Bilingüe en México.

Abstract

Mexico is characterized as a multicultural country because it has 68 indigenous languages. The total population in Mexico totals more than 11 million inhabitants, of whom 10% are indigenous. The National Education System is committed to assisting 3,856,788 indigenous people, of whom 1,893,020 speak an indigenous language and 7,297,694 are self-assigned as indigenous.His attention to the moment, has been very questionable because of the results in coverage and quality. The objective of this work is to: Describe the way in which the Intercultural Bilingual Education model is worked on at the primary level, with the aim of detecting some deficiencies that give guidelines to seek alternatives for improvement to this educational model.We worked with a qualitative approach and applied: a questionnaire to bilingual intercultural teachers and an interview with the educational agents: principal, intercultural teachers, students and parents of the schools with the Intercultural Bilingual Education program. The investigation was carried out in four states of the Mexican Republic. Problems were detected in the infrastructure, administrative and educational. Concluding that the lowest educational indexes have the Bilingual Intercultural Schools.