Educación Intercultural no formal: estudio de caso sobre la exposición Tsantsa del museo Pumapungo

Abstract

The present study arises from the need to respond to the absence of research on the subject of intercultural elements incorporated in museum exhibitions. The objective was: to understand non-formal intercultural education, through the analysis of the Tsantsa Exhibition of the Pumapungo Museum. To fulfill this objective, a qualitative investigation was implemented and the hermeneutical phenomenological method and the case study were applied. In-depth interviews were applied to 5 attendees of the exhibition, while a focus group was carried out with 10 students from UNAE, belonging to the first cycle of the Experimental Sciences degree. This study concluded with the determination of the conceptions of local visitors and foreign tourists, regarding the Tsantsa exhibition at the Pumapungo Museum, identifying conceptions about intercultural education that highlight the integration of cultures as an exchange of ideas between human beings. The pedagogical elements of non-formal intercultural education were identified: diverse training of mediators, pedagogical competences and strengths, personnel trained in museum issues, exclusivity of the exhibition and characteristics of the exhibited objects (the Tsantsas themselves). Finally, the intercultural elements present were revealed based on the visitor link with the Tsantsa Exhibition at the Pumapungo Museum: the participants' perception of the interaction between the visitors and the mediator, as well as the identification of mechanisms and strategies to represent intercultural diversity