Higher Education with relevance and quality. Inclusion, diversity, human rights and social extension: An Experience of the Intercultural Community University

Abstract

This essay discusses and puts in perspective the contribution of the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast (URACCAN) born in the bowels of the Regional Autonomy, for sustaining a higher intercultural, relevant, quality, inclusive and respectful education of the human rights of women and men of indigenous, Afro-descendant and ethnic peoples in Abya Yala. Precisely, in the article there is a consideration on the responsibility assumed by URACCAN for more than two decades, to promote and articulate a new decolonizing paradigm of education aimed at ensuring access to Higher Education of sectors historically invisible and excluded from the possibility of sharing, practicing and revitalizing their traditions and customs, from the collectivity.