Universidad en el Campo: La Experiencia en la Costa Caribe Norte de Nicaragua

Abstract

This article discusses the experience of the University
in the Countryside (UNICAM), implemented by
the University of the Autonomous Regions of the
Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast (URACCAN), in the
Autonomous Region of the North Caribbean Coast
of Nicaragua, as a revolutionary, innovative and
transformative educational process with relevance,
interculturality, humanism and quality in multiethnic
and multicultural contexts. Program that is part of
a project promoted by the Government of Unity
and National Reconciliation, which arises from the
needs to increase coverage and access to public, free
Higher Education with quality of protagonists living
in communities further away from urban centres;
as part of the restitution of rights. In this sense, it is
opened and developed, in four indigenous territories:
Prinzapolka, Sauni As, Kambla and Waspam,
benefiting 250 protagonist students from more
than 40 communities, in the training of teachers in
Education Sciences in the specialties of: Mathematics,
Intercultural Education Bilingual, English and Hispanic
Language and Literature for the strengthening and
development of the Regional Autonomous Educational
Subsystem, community life plans, communities and
the country. The main purpose of this article is to
present with descriptive character the experience
of UNICAM implemented by the University of the
Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean
Coast (URACCAN), in the Northern Autonomous
Region of Nicaragua, as an emblematic, revolutionary,
innovative and transformative academic program
that guarantees coverage, access, inclusiveness
and equity to Higher Education and strengthens the
community for the development with identity of the
peoples, thanks to the goodwill and disposition of
the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity
and the National Council of Universities (CNU), the
governing body of Higher Education in Nicaragua.