Systems of own thoughts: A learning from the Intercultural Community University

Abstract

The systems of own thoughts, of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples, are in force today, frequently made invisible by the absence of scientific rigor, although from the very ways of producing them they maintain rigor. Addressing the issue of building one's own knowledge is controversial and contentious within the academic field, however, subsequent proposals have the purpose of establishing the convenience of transforming knowledge societies into more diversified, open, and inclusive spaces, where it can coexist and use the scientific as the traditional. From the experience of the intercultural community university, proposals of collective construction are made; of creation, recreation, and practices of knowledge and wisdom of the peoples. Throughout the entire discussion, reflections and rethinking are presented to act in Higher Education, the setting for the establishment of knowledge societies. Ending with affirmations and convictions that intercultural higher education should be for the preservation of  cultures; valuation of diversity, and legitimize your own thought systems.