The indigenous movement in Ecuador tried to decolonize knowledge and education (obviously only recently in this concrete words) by establishing an intercultural educational system, going from primary schools up to universities. In this system, they seek to combine western type knowledges and indigenous ones by highlighting indigenous principles such as interculturality or the Good Life. This is the university found by the indigenous movement: http://www.amawtaywasi.edu.ec/ On this page, there is a founding text in English, explaining the principles of this university and its wish to decolonize education and knowledge.

Thank you very much for the very interesting example...Philipp.

I think it is more than only combine knowledges, it is to decolonize the mind, recognizing the coloniality of knowlege

In Third world countries like Asia and Africa still we follow the colonial cultural motifs. These cultural motifs are in transition from the colonial period to the post colonial. The cultural motifs like language, education, dress code, food habits, etiquette, behavioral patterns etc. are in transition from the colonial epoch of history to the post colonial. We are now in the ultra post modern society where hybrid culture is in demand and hence it is promoted. We follow the selection - rejection criteria in the case of adopting culture. We are not now strictly following the culture given by the West, instead we accept only those we feel good and reject the rest.

I think serious educational reforms should start in these countries in order to retrieve national education. If these educational reforms succeed, the national identity (with all its components) will be also retrieved.