Decoloniality and Critical Interculturality in Higher Education: Experiences and Challenges in Ecuadorian Amazonia

The struggles for decolonisation involve problems of coloniality knowledge that persist in postcolonial states and shape their national educational programmes. In Ecuador, the request to decolonise education has been part agenda Indigenous organisations decades, successfully led formulation programmes intercultural bilingual education. its radical acception, theoretically aims represent revitalise knowledges languages have long under processes invisibility erasure. Moreover, offer culturally pertinent would shorten epistemic distance plays a role access retention students, especially higher line with these principles, this study analyses situation Amazonia region, focus on Universidad Estatal Amazonica (UEA), who claims integrate ancestral research see how contents pedagogical approaches respect pluriversal worlds Amazonian region. Using official reports, observations interviews, reveals, one hand, persistence deny validity education, other growing presence decolonial spaces claimed by students as reaction within UEA.