| Sumario: | This article analyzes the interaction between indigenous knowledge andwestern science in teacher training of intercultural education. This is developedin terms of culture encounters of different societies between trainers andstudents who belong to Western and Mapuche cultures. Indigenous knowledgeis provided in either working techniques and practices or in social activitiesin which its efficiency depends on the relationship among people whoparticipate. On the other hand, Western science depends on experimental orformal criteria of scientificity where knowledge does not exist without anydefinite discursive practice shaping scientific hypothesis, theories and laws.Culture is analyzed as a communicational field which organizes a set ofattitudes. The attitude significances exteriorized in behavior or expressioncodes are interiorized in the memory and symbolic interchanges. But,interculture implies the opening to the relationship settlement with theOther. Thus, this re-establishes a value pluralism and relationships of interindependence among those values or among the systems and its individuals.Interculture is an innovation proposing a different interpretation of the world.
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