“Intercultural education in Mexico, implications for natural resources conservation”

Presented by Francisco J. Rosado-May, agroecologist. In 2004, Mexico opened the first intercultural university in the state of Mexico and started developing a new higher educational model for Indigenous students. In theory, the intercultural model offers a safe space in which different ways (e.g. science and indigenous) of learning, constructing, innovating and transmitting knowledge coexist, creating conditions for synergies to take place, new knowledge, intercultural knowledge emerges from t